Too Soft, Too Tough, Never Just Right: The Impossible Standard for Women Leaders

The useful part

Weekend Reading on Women's Representation is a compilation of stories about women's representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little gardening and goodwill mixed in for refreshment! Whatever regrets, pity or unfairness she's carried, she has simply accepted in silence, just like lots of other women I have encountered in my life." —Wednesday was Women's Equality Day.

How it works

• Even with every constitutional right guaranteed on paper, would our electoral system actually produce a government where women hold their fair share of power?
• —Already the first Muslim woman and first Afghan American to serve in the California state senate, Wahab is the first Afghan American to serve in Congress.
• Earlier this month, women swept the nominations for open seats for governor and U.S.

Details worth keeping

This week: —"My mother started in politics in her early thirties. Over the course of her career, she tried to run multiple times. For one reason or another, it was never quite her turn.