I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.

Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.

The reason I wrote Lean In is I think people weren't actually noticing that we had stopped making progress. I gave a TED talk and said: "It turns out men still run the world." And the audience gasped as if that was news.

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

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

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.

It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.