Our aspirations are really for women to be in half the leadership roles and men to be doing half the work of parenting.

We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.

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.

The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.

Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.

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.

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.