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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought the issue with Sheryl Sandberg is that she has money to outsource things, so it's easy for her to tell women to lean in.  But it's not like you lean in and automatically start making the kind of money she makes (the kind of money that enables you to hire help to make home life easier).

I don't think she's a bad person, but I think she's out of touch with what most working women deal with, the challenges to leaning in.

That said, I don't think my issue with her is just about professional women and the issues they face but about the issues men and women face in the modern workplace with regard to being expected to sacrifice all other things in life for work.  I think too many CEOs write books about this stuff and then expect all other workers to work like they do but without their high pay.  So it's one thing to work a 60-hour (or more) week when you make enough money to hire people to take care of all of the other things in life.  It's a different thing if you're a middle manager making peanuts and expected to work those hours.

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She actually did an interview on NPR where she said that some of the things she wrote about in Lean In she has a different perspective on now that her circumstances have changed.  She's learning.  The example she gave was "making your partner a true partner."  She basically said yeah, I didn't really think about the fact that so many women don't have partners, and how hard that is for them.  Give her a break.  She's trying.  I'm hoping she will advocate for some of the things you are talking about.  [/quote]

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