Why Gender Equality Is So Hard to Achieve

Finally, someone said it out loud. "There's a reason why we haven't had a woman president,” President Obama said at a fundraiser earlier in September. "We as a society still grapple with what it means to see powerful women. And it still troubles us in a lot of ways, unfairly. And that expresses itself in all sorts of ways." Women have long been aware that to get their ideas valued, copying male behavior patterns is not the ticket—they have to work differently.