What These 3 Influential Women Want Girls Everywhere to Know – Condoleezza Rice, Sheryl Sandberg, and Anna Maria Chávez

As her class vice president at Highland Oaks junior high in Miami, ninth grader Sheryl Sandberg wasn’t shy about raising her voice. "We had real changes we wanted to make in student government," she recalls about the goals she and the class president, her best friend Mindy Levy, set out to accomplish. But instead of praising the girls for their work, a faculty adviser encouraged Levy to drop Sandberg from her ticket the next year. "She’s too aggressive, too bossy," the teacher said. "You don’t want to be bossy." For both young women, her point was clear: Girls aren’t supposed to lead.

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Sheryl Sandberg and Anna Maria Chávez on ‘Bossy,’ the Other B-word

Confident girls are often called the other B-word, and it can keep them from reaching their full potential, write Sheryl Sandberg and Anna Maria Chávez

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