After reading this week’s article “Foot in the Door, Mouse
in Hand: Low Income Women, Short Term Job Training Programs and IT Careers,” I
got to thinking, what is the current status of women in the workplace? Outside
of just the IT industry, are women increasingly permeating job boundaries to
once highly guarded sectors? The newly popular yet controversial book Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg explores why women have failed to achieve a majority of C-level
leadership positions in top corporations. Sandberg provides perspective on
building an accomplished career while balancing a fulfilling personal life.
Sandberg reasons that women subconsciously feel the need to “lean out” and question
their ability to perform in the boardroom as an equal to their male colleagues.
However, through personal stories and data, she provides an inspiring call to
action for women universally to take back control and become leaders. She
encourages readers to ask themselves, “How can I do better? What am I doing
that I don’t know? What am I not doing that I don’t see? Done is better than
perfect” (NY Times). One prominent critique of the book is that Sandberg is
coming from a highly privileged and successful background. She is currently the
chief operating officer of Facebook with previous jobs at Google and the U.S.
Treasury. Not to mention she’s married to David Goldberg, CEO of Survey Monkey.
As Sheryl Sandberg has initiated a completely new discourse regarding women in
the workplace and truly having it all, you have to wonder, how realistic is
this? How far do women across America and the world have to lean in to achieve
this reality? How far would you lean
in?
Check out this video of Sheryl Sandberg’s own talk on the
book here…
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