Bilge’s Reviews > Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide > Status Update

Whenever a man asks for and receives some significant reward or opportunity, a really good manager will consider doing the same for his or her female employees with the same qualifications.

If adults are guiding girls toward more structured activities, they’re actually training them to follow externally imposed rules, let others control their circumstances, and assert themselves less. They’re teaching them to accept the status quo and go along with it, rather than question it.

the teacher asked her students to think about how their lives would be different if they’d been born the opposite gender.
Items on the boys’ list included: “I’d have to help my mom cook”; “I’d have to stand around at recess instead of getting to play basketball”…
Examples from the girls’ list included: “I could stay out later”; “I’d get to play more sports”