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Anybody looking for ways to help improve their daughter's (or niece's, or granddaughter's) future workplace prospects should start now by working to eliminate the word "bossy" from their vocabulary, Dallas lawyer Kathleen Wu writes in a recent Texas Lawyer commentary. The word is only ever applied to girls, and by scolding them for being "bossy," girls learn that being a leader isn't what "good girls" do, according to Wu. It's also "the precursor to all the other weighted words applied to women leaders, like 'ambitious,' 'shrill' and other PG- and R-rated words," she writes. "Stop telling the young women in our lives not to be bossy, and if we hear someone telling a girl she's too bossy, simply pull her aside and tell her, 'Don't worry, sweetie. You're just being a leader.'" For more information, contact Amy Hunt at 800-559-4534 or amy@androvett.com.