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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I leaned in any more I would be planking.  If she really wanted to help women, should would help some women in her company  to succeed without leaning in so hard (like white guys do).  [/quote]

I like this!  In all fairness, I didn't read beyond page 2 of the comments but this resonated with me.  I like the idea of "leaning in", of women who want to focus on their careers being able to reach their professional goals but I also think that there needs to be a systemic change in order to make that happen.  The solution isn't to drop MORE work on women.  We should be working on ways to let women do LESS so they can reach their goals MORE.  I think that would be more helpful and meaningful.  Women are already taking on the lions share of household work "their second shift" at home after working their butts off at work.  There's this newer concept that [b]women also take on bulk the unseen emotional work[/b] on balancing everything: balancing all family appointments, vacations, childcare, schooling, health issues, ect....which leads to stressed and anxious women who don't get opportunities to just relax as much as men do.  
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As a woman in tech, I find that I do this at work as well. Only technical woman on my team, and I find myself having to manage the emotional baggage of both the people who work for me and the people I work for. For how "rational" they are supposed to be, they are big emotional messes who have difficulty getting out of the way of their feelings to do work.[/quote]

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