Remember: white men constitute just 31 percent of the American population. There is no situation in which they should be constituting the majority of the room.

Track your accomplishments so that you’re relying on facts—not faith—when you ask for what you want.

Businesses are more successful when they hire women: more collaborative,3 more profitable,4 more inclusive.5 Women are in fact more effective leaders,6 less likely to take unnecessary risks,7 great at multitasking,8 and have higher emotional intelligence9— as the Harvard Business Review put it, “one of the least counter-intuitive findings in the

in workplaces that place top value on “overwork,” women are in fact more likely to be evaluated poorly and less likely to receive opportunities for promotions.

Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office

try one of these “male” words instead: independent, confident, intelligent, fair.

Ask for What You Want

To be a woman in the working world means to have to work twice as hard and be twice as good, simply to be viewed on par with a man at her same level.

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