Another influential barrier women face is the fight with their insight such as motives, purposes. Activist and author Sheryl Sandberg with her essay illustrates how can women themselves be barriers for their success. The matter of Sheryl Sandberg’s concern in her essay “The Leadership Ambition Gap” is why highly talented women choose to leave their careers and become homemakers. Women underestimate themselves, their purposes because the existing double-standards make their ambition perceived as a negative quality. An example of a double standard is when women are taught that being bossy is bad and that they have a right to choose only one of two options: a successful career or happy family life. Even if they have motives, ambitions of becoming
