Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

By Sheryl Sandberg

Book overview

Sheryl Kara Sandberg is an American technology executive, activist, and author. She is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook.

Lean In is a book for professional women to help them achieve their career goals and for men who want to contribute to a more equitable society. The book looks at the barriers preventing women from taking leadership roles in the workplace, barriers such as discrimination, blatant and subtle sexism, and sexual harassment.

She also examines societal barriers such as the fact that women still work the double day and the devaluing of work inside the home as opposed to work outside the home. Along with the latter there are the barriers that women create for themselves through internalizing systematic discrimination and societal gender roles. Sandberg argues that in order for change to happen women need to break down these societal and personal barriers by striving for and achieving leadership roles.

The ultimate goal is to encourage women to lean in to positions of leadership because she asserts that by having more female voices in positions of power there will be more equitable opportunities created for everyone.

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