Zara Arshad’s Reviews > Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead > Status Update

The upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.

"He explained that sometimes those of us who are different need to remind people to treat us appropriately."

The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.

Aside from the external hurdles holding women back, the biggest block is the mental one: girls are indirectly brainwashed to doubt themselves.

Conditions for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles giving strong and powerful voice to their needs and concerns.