This is the best TedTalk I've come across. Well done speaker. Amazing job. This is soulful content.

I love learning about women leadership. Anyone else?

Thank you so much! You are a true inspiration. I loved this Ted talk❤️

I have learned a lot through TED Talks and found them truly interesting but this presentation was by far the best. Congratulations!

Thinking about my experience, what I found out is that it is really hard to get men to trust you in the workplace, but once day do, they are very supportive. However, women will see other women as a threat and start making their lives hard. For the most part I have experienced that women are the enemies of other women.

Such an inspirational and motivating talk.

Excellent speech. Thanks a lot. 🙏🙏

So wanting to step outside the box and fly. Enjoying these talks

What a great talk....loved every bit of it.

Focus on your values, really great advice.

So on point! Thanks so much. I was also so scared of being a leader till I became one. Ladies, you can do it..its not rocket science. Just remove the fear factor and you are good to go...don't forget to develop yourselves, that's the only way you can learn the ropes. Good luck👍

1. Focus on your values before you do anything that scares you 2. Be brave, have and show mental and moral strength to face danger, fear, and difficulty

Simply inspiring!

Holy sh!$. I have no words, thank you for this 🙏💕

So much truth in this talk. That riddle pulled me right in from the start. Thanks for sharing your hard-earned insight and shining a huge spotlight on the leadership gap for women and men, and how we can bravely work together to confront it.

What a great talk, she is so right. How can it be that women make up 50% the population and do not have proportional representation in leadership positions? Incredible! I really hope individuals become aware and willing to encourage women to lead. Go women! You CAN do it!

Outstanding! Alexis - you are brilliant.

We need women like you. Appreciated Alexis🎉

Thanks so much

Excellent talk. I am a woman who never feared leading and, from a very early age, knew that the thing I wanted to do in life is lead. The issue I've found is that the kind of leadership the teams I lead need is that which helps them organize, communicate, and collaborate, (which I'd argue is the "ideal female leader"--that of "mother" to her team--makes sure the kids keep their rooms clean and get along properly) and the kind of leadership they get is militant, dictative, and distant (which is a "father" to his team role, but don't get me started on our society's daddy issued). Often the white male lead I work with will not have an understanding of what is wrong and what needs to be done (because the team lacks organization) but thinks it's his job to TELL everyone what to do, sometimes even just doing it for them because he lacks the ability to communicate what needs to be done. When I've brought my leadership skills to the team, it becomes organized, team members understand who to go to when they need what, and everyone knows what they're supposed to be doing, but I don't get recognition from the male lead. It's like he himself lacks support and guidance from his other male leads and superiors. The issue is that men are rising into these leadership roles BECAUSE of their appearance (white male = looks like a leader = must be a leader) but they don't actually know how to lead the team (due to lack of training or competition instead of collaboration with their peers) so they become insecure when their team gets the support they need from me. Mind you, it's not ALL the team needs, it could use the direction and foresight these male leads should be providing via their job description, but I end up being all they have when their "traditional leader" isn't fulfilling his responsibilities. In summary, what I'm suggesting is that the female leadership problem could be resolved by fixing our male leadership problem. We just have a leadership problem, people.

Great 17 minutes!

Great inspiration

Perfect.. Women are the pillars of the society and corporate culture. Loved your talk.

Loved it!

You are so inspiring

I would like to learn more, where can I find such studies/papers/etc.?

I hadn´t to "get the riddle right", since I remembered the answer from my childhood - If memory serves me correctly, I firstly read it in a book called "Metamagicum" written by Douglas Hofstadter.

Thank you, Alexis! It is such inspiring speech!

I’m tired of putting the responsibility on women - telling them to lean in. I have leaned in, and I was told to shut up. Not that directly, but it was the message. I’m nearly 15 years into my career, and this has been the repeat message from the company I worked at for nearly 10 years. Happy to report I’ve recently left, but again, women cannot solve the problem of inequality by themselves.

I got the riddle right immediately.. why is it so hard ?

I was watching this for a debate but I learned much more than expected 😄

The Leader of you is the ruleset to bring the plan... .. Don't forget to blend..🇺🇸

I am in 15%, didn't even take a moment to answer.....and didn't even realize there was a stereotype, I guess that's because our family doctor is women and in India, atleast doctors have a balanced gender ratio

E. Morrell for class 4.28.20 11:10

I've asked this riddle to active hospital patients as a way to pass their time. Only 1 person ever got it.

Madison Vaughn watched for class on 4/28/2020 at 1:04am CST

I am jumping up and down

Is the university study available for me to read?

Thomas Miller watched 4/30/2020 at 8:27am

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In the riddle it's not only about mind models. It's also about language expressions. In other languages you would know that the doctor is a woman, because there is a word for that.

*To me most guys can theoretical do dating, though they mess up practically. And it has more to do with society in general than the actual situation. Everyone seems to be under societies influence of madness and that to make everybody so stressed out. So womens behaviour is not at all the reasons why dating is hard. Still women seem to have the only power to transform society on a large enough scale and thus to take dating and the whole ways we live our lives to another level. Therefore I like to assure you women: you have all the time and space to make decide over your own life, to open up and do what you like! The universe supports you and society needs you! Especially in public leadership and as initiators lies your strength! It may not be easy to overcome the trauma of centuries of exploitation and marginalisation. Though the rewards are thousandfold for all of us! You can do it! You have the power in your decision. Connect. Do small steps. Every contribution to this task is such a big gift of your unconditional love! I thank you deeply from my heart for existing and all good you ever did. For your patience and companionship! For your individuality and for your deliberate intentions and your wisdom! YOU ARE STRONG!*

Strange, I got it right immediately. Why?

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what did her inability to accept a leadership accolade as a child on an all female team have to do with men?

*Quero*

I am here because Women are destroying my view on the Women whom have been GREAT inspiration for a simple man like me. The Women who became my FOSTER mother's, the Women who are my LITERAL WONDER WOMAN. The women who stood up for me when I wasn't able. Those women I cry for , those women I would die for, those women I fight for.

2:35 dude was on some serious thought process 😜😜

Gosh, I can't believe you used that riddle in 2018. I was using it in English as a Second language class with non-native speakers in the early 90s- it usually took about 5-10 minutes for the class to solve it.

Please Mr. Shark, don't eat me! I have a family; eat them instead!

I need a challenge of training 10 young persons with another person male. Let's see the impacts our trainees have at the end of the training.

Wow, an interesting observation, I have never seen a male principal in my pre school, school, Jr college, college or pg ....but it's extremely rare to see women chairman or secretary or treasurer of organizations.....it's like women can be ceo but not the founder.....or something and it makes sense! But still a better representation than the US

How do you / How would you reconcile a " Rifle " culture 🤔 with the leadership of your gender , ., female . Is the Rifle a Corporate mission ? Is it an Industrial product ? anyway Has feminism ever thought about it ? What is the priority of the Nations on Peace and Good will amongst the Signatories ? Southern Cross ✝️ 👌

The answer to your surgeon riddle is that the surgeon was the sons dad. Let that sink in- we have stereotypes about homesexual parents too.

The only issue I have with women in leadership, particularly politics, is that most (if not all) have been APPOINTED to their position instead of voted in. Look at VP Kamala Harris, NY Gov, Supreme Court Justice, etc. There will be more respect for their achievement if they are voted in or not given all out preferential treatment.

I dont think a woman she be in charge nor do I think a man I say the right Person should be incharge

The most dangerous thing for any team to have is a fearful or insecure leader. You probably shouldn't be a leader if you are feeling that way...period.

This is exactly what someone who isn't a leader would say. Your my leader when I say your my leader, and its not because I'm feeling generous. It's because it's obvious.

我真的哭了，就在那些女生都还没进入社会没真正体验过男权社会的时候，就已经自我怀疑了。我们到底什么时候才能给予女性自己更多的鼓励和正向的教育，而不是作为父母就开始让女孩去做那些更安全稳定的被人领导的工作呢？因为那样不等于他们就会体验幸福。委屈的顺从什么时候能换来幸福。请问？从我们开始吧，改变这样的沟通方式和内容吧。

Not surprised that majority of the negative comments on here are from men...many of you completely missed the point.

Male leaders - Vision, Aim, Plan, Apply Female leaders - Vision, Aim, Plan... waiting to be approved by the society, waiting to be accepted, waiting to be discovered, waiting, waiting, waiting...

We are all equally but we are very different men and women accept that fact and cooperate

You got leadership wrong. A leader hears arguments to inform an opinion, correlates it with facts, and sets a direction. Then direct the employees.

really that starting riddle is old as the queen

1:00 Well, even a male doctor refused to operate on his wife!

I don't understand. That's not a riddle.

This is all very nice until you are a woman in leadership and realize that the space, if not ready and open to diversity and women leadership, THE SYSTEM will make it quite impossible for you to thrive. Not everything can be center on the individual.

Did it occur to anyone that the riddle itself is gender-discriminative? The feeling of not able to operate on one's own son can happen to men too! Why is this feeling supposed to be associated only to women?

If it were Asian audiences it would be very silent at the end

Bro

I would like to do Zoom call with you

very good talk, but too much politics.

So... it is believed that every position needs to be occupied by an equal number of women and men? Why? Brick layers are 99.9% men. Why should half of them be women? I disagree with the presumption that equal numbers of men and women in leadership roles should be even the goal. If men and women are equal in every way, then why does it matter who tends to be in what leadership roles? Let the cards fall where they may.

Women aren’t in leadership… it’s not that hard a riddle… women are 50% of frontline combat…. It’s not that hard a riddle… women aren’t 50% of brick layers…. It’s not that hard a riddle.

Why do people at Ted speaks so fast? They don't allow information to sink in at any time. That's not a good speech.

Why is she shouting?

I’m super sexist. Thought the boy had a daddy and a father

😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😊 cap!!!

Prabhupada: Well, according to Vedic conception woman is never offered leadership. But experience has shown that woman’s leadership has not been successful.

It's perverse

God, it's so boring listening to her. It is all full of story telling and so few actual information coming across. The interesting part starts at 8:28. before that the first 8 and something minutes are summarized as follows: "Women fare better in simulations of leadership in a controlled environment, but if asked about their leadership skills men are more sure of themselves."

>Women >Leadership Pick one.

ok now women have a lot to do with..let them get it done …

Does the bible agree with women in leadership positions over men?

Women are not meant to lead. Well I don't think a teenager can lead even though he might seemed to be responsible. Her trying to convince me is the same is her telling me she can live for 1000 years.

This is such a great talk!