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Chapter 1 The Leadership Ambition Gap: What Would You Do If You Weren't Afraid?
第1章 職業(yè)女性的內(nèi)在障礙：如果克服了恐懼，你會做什么？
My grandmother Rosalind Einhorn was born exactly fifty-two years before I was, on August 28, 1917.
在我出生52年前的同一天，1917年8月28日，我的外祖母羅莎琳德·艾因霍恩出生了。
Like many poor Jewish families in the boroughs of New York City, hers lived in a small, crowded apartment close to their relatives.
和紐約城里的許多猶太移民家庭一樣，艾因霍恩一家住在一個緊挨著自家親戚、空間極為局促的公寓里。
Her parents, aunts, and uncles addressed her male cousins by their given names, but she and her sister were referred to only as "Girlie."
外祖母的父母和叔嬸對她的表兄弟們都直呼其名，卻叫她和她的姐妹們“丫頭”。
During the Depression, my grandmother was pulled out of Morris High School to help support the household
大蕭條時期，我的外祖母被迫從莫里斯高中退學(xué)，開始幫著維持一家老少的生計。
by sewing fabric flowers onto undergarments that her mother could resell for a tiny profit.
她給衣物縫制布花，她的母親再以微小的差價把衣服轉(zhuǎn)賣出去。
No one in the community would have considered taking a boy out of school.
在當(dāng)時的社會，沒人會讓讓男孩輟學(xué)，
A boy's education was the family's hope to move up the financial and social ladder.
一個家庭若要提高社會、經(jīng)濟地位，希望就寄托在家里男孩的教育上，
Education for girls, however, was less important both financially, since they were unlikely to contribute to the family's income, and culturally,
他們會讓男孩學(xué)習(xí)猶太教律法；而女孩因為不會對家庭的經(jīng)濟收入有太多貢獻(xiàn)，
since boys were expected to study the Torah while girls were expected to run a "proper home."
所以能體面持家就可以，受不受教育根本不重要。
Luckily for my grandmother, a local teacher insisted that her parents put her back into school.
不過，我的外祖母很幸運，當(dāng)時一位老師堅持要求她父母把她送回學(xué)校。
She went on not only to finish high school but to graduate from U.C. Berkeley.
就這樣，她不僅讀完了高中，還順利地從加州大學(xué)伯克利分校畢業(yè)。
After college, "Girlie" worked selling pocketbooks and accessories at David's Fifth Avenue.
讀完大學(xué)后，這個“丫頭”在一家名叫戴維的第五大道門店做手袋和飾品的銷售工作。
