Best quotes by Sheryl Sandberg on Women

Checkout quotes by Sheryl Sandberg on Women

• ‟ We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

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• ‟ If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

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• ‟ I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

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• ‟ Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.

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• ‟ We've got to get women to sit at the table.

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• ‟ If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

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• ‟ The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

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• ‟ People think that women don't negotiate because they're not good negotiators, but that's not it. Women don't negotiate because it doesn't work as well for them. Women have to say, 'I really add a lot of value, and it's in your interest to pay me more.' I hate that advice, but I want to see women get ahead.

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• ‟ Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top.

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• ‟ Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.

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• ‟ I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.

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• ‟ I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.

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• ‟ It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

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• ‟ For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

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• ‟ Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

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• ‟ Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.

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• ‟ I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

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• ‟ And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.

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• ‟ We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.

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• ‟ Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There's a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they're going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.

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• ‟ When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a 'good man' before they are all taken.

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• ‟ What works for men does not always work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That's what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less.

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• ‟ Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

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• ‟ Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that - whatever success they have, that same success - to their own core skills.

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• ‟ It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

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• ‟ I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won't just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all.

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