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There are structural and institutional barriers to women we're aware of. her focus in this conversation is how have women internalized some of the barriers and are they sometimes holding themselves become a. >> "the sisters are doing it to themselves, for a variety of reasons they're not aiming high enough, they're underestimating their abilities, they're doing too much housework and child care, they're compromising their career goals for partners and children even when such partners and children do not yet exist. we hold ourselves back in ways both big and small by lacking self-confidence, by...

Our country in the college educated part of the population, men are more ambitious than women. they're more ambitious the day they graduate from college. they remain more ambitious every step along the career path. we will never close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap. >> so is it women's fault? do we have to be more ambitious and work harder? >> look, first of all, congratulations to sheryl sandberg on being the first woman at facebook on the board. i hope there are many more. but i don't buy that. i'm not saying there's not women who say right now no, i don't want to be ceo...