SUSANNAH BRESLIN: How To Get A Freelance Job.

Here’s what emails I get from young men asking for advice are like: self-assured, to the point, confident. Here’s what emails I get from young women asking for advice are like: supplicating, meandering, questioning.

You want to know why women are having a hard time getting ahead? They ask for favors like they don’t deserve them, they don’t know what they want even when they ask for it, they let everyone know that what they’re very, very unsure about is themselves.

Here’s where that gets you: nowhere.

If you don’t act like you believe in yourself, why should someone else?