3 December 2020 Sheryl Sandberg 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.
3 December 2020 Sheryl Sandberg 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.
3 December 2020 Sheryl Sandberg 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.
3 December 2020 Sheryl Sandberg 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.
3 December 2020 Sheryl Sandberg I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
3 December 2020 Sheryl Sandberg So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
3 December 2020 Sheryl Sandberg 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.
3 December 2020 Sheryl Sandberg The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
