Throughout my career as a lawyer, and now as a consultant, I’ve seen hundreds of successful women whose careers stalled at levels that didn’t match their ambitions for themselves. They weren’t held back by their work ethic or their skills. Nor were they ceding to the family pressures described in Anne Marie-Slaughter’s now-viral Atlantic article; most were comfortable with how they’d integrated their personal and professional lives and had solid support systems at home. Yes, they faced unconscious bias at the office, but they didn’t see the barriers posed as insurmountable.