And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym? - Sheryl Sandberg

"Still, my argument was that if she was going to work for the next thirty years, what difference does going "back" four years really make? If the other path made her happier and offered her a chance to learn new skills, that meant she was actually moving forward."

When a girl tries to lead, she is often labeled bossy. Boys are seldom called bossy because a boy taking the role of a boss does not surprise or offend. As someone who was called this for much of my childhood, I know that it is not a compliment.

We call our daughters—but not our sons—bossy. We overestimate our sons’ crawling abilities and underestimate our daughters’.