Confidence
Build the confidence to speak up, take risks, and pursue opportunities that align with your goals.
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What Is Likeability Bias? Why Successful Women Face This Hurdle at Work
New research shows women who come across as intellectually capable are treated with more hostility than men with the same abilities. Here's how to counter it.
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Asking for a Promotion in Your Performance Review: How to Prepare
Research shows what actually helps women advance — and it isn't working harder. Here's a week-by-week game plan for a performance review or promotion ask.
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How to Get a Job in 2026: What Every New Graduate Needs to Know
The class of 2026 is entering a job market reshaped by AI. Here are the new rules for standing out on LinkedIn, in your resume, and during interviews.
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The Surprising Benefit of Using All Your PTO
Taking your PTO can boost year-end performance by 8%. Here's how to prepare so time off actually helps your career — plus a checklist for a smooth vacation.
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How to Deal With a Micromanager Without Hurting Your Career
A micromanaging boss can bottleneck reviews and make you feel like your expertise isn't trusted. Here's how to manage the dynamic without hurting your career.
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The Hidden Rules of Work Every Young Woman Should Know Before Starting Her Career
In school the rules are clear, but at work they aren't — and ambiguity favors men. Here are the hidden rules young women need before starting a career.
Findings
Young Women Aren’t Opting Out. They’re Opting for Better.
92% of women under 30 want to be promoted — more than men. Young women are the most ambitious group Lean In has ever studied. Here's what companies must do.
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How to Respond When Someone Questions Your Competence at Work
Women's competence is underestimated at work — especially in male-dominated fields. Learn how to push back when your judgment is second-guessed.
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How to Help Teen Girls Navigate Friendship Conflict
Friendship conflict can be painful and powerful. Discover research-informed strategies to help girls build confidence, set boundaries, and repair relationships.
Guides
Accelerating Your Career
Learn how to accelerate your career with proven strategies to get promoted faster, build visibility, and reach the next level at work.
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How to Raise Girls to Be Leaders
Girls begin losing confidence as early as age 6. Get research-backed strategies to build your daughter's self-belief, voice, and leadership skills.
Guides
Raising Girls to Be Leaders
Learn how to raise girls to be leaders with research-backed strategies to build confidence, resilience, and leadership skills from an early age.
Guides
For Working Mothers
Learn how to avoid the motherhood penalty with strategies to address bias against working moms, increase visibility, and advance your career.
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What I Wish I Knew about Leadership Growing Up
Girls are often told they aren't leaders. Learn why that narrative is wrong and how we can help girls see themselves as leaders from a young age.
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Celebrate the Ambition of Working Mothers
Working mothers are more ambitious than women overall, yet maternal bias holds them back. See the data and learn how to support moms at work.
Findings
The “Gen Z Women Are Opting Out” Story Is Wrong
New Lean In research shows Gen Z women want leadership when companies show they want them. See the data on ambition and what employers must offer.
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Public Speaking Anxiety: Why It's Different for Women, and How to Move Past It
Women face gender bias when speaking in public, from interruptions to harsher judgment. Get research-backed tactics for building presenting confidence.
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How Do I Manage a Performance Review after Maternity Leave?
Managing a performance review after a hard six months with a new baby? Get advice on giving yourself credit and reframing the conversation.
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How to Negotiate Your Salary and Get Paid What You're Worth
Women face more pushback than men when they negotiate. Here are research-backed negotiation strategies to help you get what you're worth.
Op-Ed
Why Women's Leadership Is More Important than Ever in the Age of AI
AI can't replicate communication, empathy, or ethical judgment, the strengths that position women to lead in an AI-powered workplace.
Op-Ed
Q&A: The Importance of Women's Financial Literacy, with Mrs. Dow Jones
Mrs. Dow Jones on negotiating pay, investing rather than just saving, and why financial literacy is real freedom for women in every stage of their careers.
Op-Ed
Q&A: The "Rainbow Ceiling" for LGBTQ+ Workers, with Layla McCay
Layla McCay explains the rainbow ceiling holding back LGBTQ+ workers, the pay gap behind it, and how allies at work can help close it starting today.
Findings
Interrupted at work? You're not alone.
Women are twice as likely as men to be interrupted or spoken over at work. See what the research shows and what you can do about it.
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Why ambition and failure go hand in hand
Women fear failure more than men, and they're judged more harshly for it. See what the research shows and how to overcome your fear of failure.
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The hidden challenges younger women face at work
Younger women face ageism, sexual harassment, and promotion barriers at the same rates as older women. See the research and what companies must do.
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The workplace doesn’t take young women seriously—now they’re fighting back
Ageism hits young women hardest—they face bias around competence and credibility that men their age don't. See the research and how women are pushing back.
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Role modeling for girls
Girls look to the women in their lives for cues about how to think and act. Get practical tips for inspiring the next generation of female leaders.
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#inspireinclusion 5 ways adults can lift up girls as leaders
Girls face real barriers to leadership. Learn 5 ways adults can help them expand their definition of leadership and step into their power.
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How you can help girls embrace failure and take positive risks
Girls fear failure more than boys do, and it holds them back. Learn research-backed strategies to help girls build a growth mindset and take positive risks.
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Raising Resilient Girls
A growth mindset is crucial for girls, leading to improvements in learning and emotional resilience. Empower your girl to see challenges as opportunities.
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Help your girls speak up at school
From classroom discussions to real-world challenges, discover how to help girls strengthen their voice, embrace mistakes, and speak up with courage.
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Why self-efficacy matters, and how to build it in girls
Self-efficacy is a key driver of resilience, confidence, and success in teen girls. Learn 5 actionable strategies parents can use to nurture it.
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How to Succeed in Your First Job
Learn how to succeed in your first job—research-backed steps for women to build visibility, earn promotions, and navigate workplace bias from day one.
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How to Prepare Your Girls for an AI-Powered Future
86% of jobs most at risk from AI are held by women. Learn which careers will grow and how to prepare the girls in your life to lead in the AI era.
Op-Ed
Speaking While Female
Women are interrupted, ignored, and penalized for speaking up at work. See the research on gender bias in communication and what leaders can do about it.