Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.

The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.

The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results. Any coalition of support must also include men, many of whom care about gender inequality as much as women do.

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.

The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options.

In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees, and it's translating into more women in entry-level jobs, even more women in lower-level management. But there's absolutely been no progress at the top. You can't explain away 10 years. Ten years of no progress is no progress.

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