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In this article: Women want to be agreeable, so they don’t talk about income. We don’t win when we stay quiet How to talk to each other about income The Challenge: Women Aren’t Sure How to Talk about Income I had lunch the other day with a friend of mine who has a high-profile role at a well-known tech company. As she was talking to me, she lowered her voice to a whisper to say, “....and since I’m the primary breadwinner…” I stopped her - “Why did you just whisper that??” Lad

In this article: Men play to win Women play to get along Women in the 1% play like men. They don’t take “no” for an answer How more women can get what they want by playing and winning the game that men are playing The Challenge: Men Play to Win. Women Play to Get Along At work and in life, men go for what they want and get their way more often than women.   Men apply for jobs when they are 60% qualified  compared to women who wait until they are 100% qualified.  Men do  less

Did you know that only 5%  of the top 1% of income earners in the US are women? If the US were a big cake, the 1% earning men are the frosting, while the 1% women are the sprinkles on top of the frosting. Of the 1.5 million US households in the top 1%, which is about $750k  on average, only 5% of them have a woman earning enough on her own to qualify. That’s about 75,000 women in the US total. Men in the 1% = 1,425,000 = Population of Philadelphia PA Women in the 1% = 75,000