Sheryl Sandberg Wants Us to "Lean In"
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| Mon, 03-11-2013 - 3:57pm |
There is a lot in the news regarding Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new book, "Lean In", in which she is trying to empower women to be more aggressive in the workplace. It's interesting to read the different viewpoints on the debate, ranging from ABC News to CNN and the New York Times.
From an iVillage article:
But time is exactly what's holding many women back. The time investment required for women to move ahead in their jobs at all levels -- not just the C-suite spots -- is a deal breaker for many women who aren't willing to sacrifice those hours with their family. All of Sandberg's brilliant plans for redefining how working women are viewed and how they network hinge on the point that women need to want these jobs. And if the current formula of working longer and harder for career success doesn't change, many women won't.
http://www.ivillage.com/sheryl-sandberg-will-women-want-lean/6-a-526612
The articles discuss various issues that have been debated here before, such as if women can truly have it all and why women aren't as aggressive as their male counterparts to get what they deserve in the workplace. Detractors feel that with her work history, education and success, she's unable to understand the average working woman, she's not up against the same obstacles.
What do you think needs to change in the work place in order for women to succeed, and maybe find an easier balance between their work and home lives? Do you think that encouraging more women to be aggressive about moving up the corporate ladder is realistic?
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Since I didn't write the quoted response you're objecting to, I could say the same thing. And with better reason.
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Kitty
"If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing."-- Kingsley Amis, British novelist, 1971 t .
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Awww, I'm sorry I missed your bitter snark, Thard. I know, life's rough in your town car. I forgot how much of your life you spend stuck on state lines in it. My bad.
Both of my children are singletons. What's your point?
On Wednesdays we wear pink.
<You missed the point entirely...even when I was in graduate school and in my first years in private practice, the women outnumbered the men.>
Unusual, but I will accept you point without any actual proof on your part, though I'm not sure I believe it. Where are those women now? How many are partners compared to the men in the same hiring year? I'll wait for you to respond with some hard evidence...
Because statistically, women in law doesn't look to equidable financially and opportunity-wise, but I'm sure you have something other than your opinion to refute that?
http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-law-us
<I noticed you changed your tune about your company too, so I bolded it above: diversity and women>
I'm sorry, it's known as irony for the reading-comprehension impaired. My company is actually making a real effort at diversity and it's just not enough. They are rated in the top 10 of corporations for women to work year after year. No change in tune.
<And if it wanted to give the appearance of gender equality, at least it would've had a better showing of women at this one, insignificant apparently, training class.>
They run a business with an ingrained corporate culture that's difficult to change, not a on a quota. Corporate culture doesn't change quickly. They admit the inbalance, and hopefully they will change once corporate culture rebalances to value women. It requires a sea change in organizational thought and our new CEO just may make a difference, but I'm not holding my breath.
<There are many obstacles for women claiming they are being treated less than equally with men. While women are a protected class under the law, people tend to laugh at that because of the great numbers of women. It is the Hispanic, the African-American, the wheelchair-bound, who ARE treated unfairly in Fortune 500 and 100 companies. How many of them, if qualified in terms of education and work history, are "leaders" in this Fortune 100 company?>
Oh my!. Well Barack Obama is the POTUS, so how can one reasonably assume that blacks are discriminated against? [TIC for the irony impaired] Fortune 500 stats: 1.2 Black CEO, 1.7 Asian, 1.2 Hispanic, 4.2 Women, and over 90% White Male. So there is only 8% qualified minorities in the forture 500 companies? It has nothing to do with a corporate culture saving the good stuff the usual suspects?
Your one note responses are insulting to women and minorities as well as quite ignorant of the current workplace. Repeating them ad nauseumm, based on little knowledge or thoughtfulness for an "educated woman" is disheartening, but since you discontinued your education years ago, it can be corrected with a little effort on your part: Call your classmates. What positions have they achieved? How many partners are men? How many are women?
Nice article on this subject:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/the-washington-women-who-leaned-in-when-sheryl-sandberg-didn-t-20130312
"Born, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, was eventually pressured to step down. But much later on, one of the men who had pilloried her, Arthur Levitt, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission during the Clinton years, became one of the few men to publicly vindicate her for warnings about the vast over-the-counter derivatives market that was about to help melt down the financial system. “All tragedies in life are always proceeded by warnings,” he told me. “We had a warning. It was Brooksley Born. We didn't listen to that."
So pay attention, Sheryl: You’ve got some serious role models here. Of course, it may be that the life lessons of some of these women could bring back uncomfortable memories for you. As my colleague Matt Cooper pointed out yesterday, Sandberg herself did precious little “leaning in” in the late ’90s while serving as chief of staff to then-Treasury Secretary Summers, when he helped hand Wall Street license to wreak disaster on the American economy. "
And a tweet from Anne-marie SLaughter:
Let me say again: Having it all simply means having what the vast majority of men have: having a family w/o making major career trade-offs.
Coming in late here....
Who are you to say that working women or men can't have it all and what slack is someone picking up for us working folk?
PumpkinAngel
Thardy - How does one see their child all day and why is that a good thing? Thinking about this...do I just sit them in a room and just look at all of them, all day?
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