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I'm Not Pretending I Can Give Advice To Every Single Person Or Every Single Couple For Every Situation; I'm Making The Point That We Are Not Going To Get To Equality In The Workforce Before We Get To Equality In The Home. Not Going To Happen.

People Assume Wall Street Is A Certain Culture And Tech Is A Certain Culture. But If You Look At The (gender) Numbers At The Top Of (those) Industries, They Don't Vary Very Much. I Think In Finance, Women Hold 19 Percent Of The Top Jobs, And Women Are 21 Percent Of The Leaders In Nonprofits.

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.

There Is No Straight Path From Your Seat Today To Where You Are Going. Don't Try To Draw That Line. You Will Not Just Get It Wrong, You'll Miss Big Opportunities. And I Mean Big-like The Internet. Careers Are Not Ladders, Those Days Are Long Gone, But Jungle Gyms. Don't Just Move Up And Down, Don't Just Look Up, Look Backwards, Sideways Around Corners. Your Career And Your Life Will Have Starts And Stops And Zigs And Zags. Don't Stress Out About The White Space-the Path You Can't Draw- Because There In Lies Both The Surprises And The Opportunities.

And In Situations Where A Man And A Woman Each Receive Negative Feedback, The Woman's Self-confidence And Self-esteem Drop To A Much Greater Degree. The Internalization Of Failure And The Insecurity It Breeds Hurt Future Performance, So This Pattern Has Serious Long-term Consequences.