"The message coming from these C-suite moms is less about empowerment…than it is about guilt," Bamberger wrote. USA Today's Joanne Bamberger called Lean In "the latest salvo in the war on moms" and compared Sandberg to Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, who recently banned working from home.
Others raised the question of whether Sandberg-whose net worth numbers in the hundreds of millions and who Forbes ranked the tenth most powerful woman in the world-is in a position to dole out career advice to women struggling with the day-to-day realities of work and family. But without simultaneously taking on the structures that keep those norms in place, women are…helping to reproduce. Speaking to early criticism of the book, Jodi Kantor of the New York Times suggested that Sandberg "places too much of the onus on women who are already struggling to fulfill impossible demands, and too little on government and employers to provide better child care, more flexible jobs and other concrete gains." Deanna Zandt wrote in Forbes: "I'm all for assertiveness training…. But in the weeks leading up to the publication of Lean In, many argued with Sandberg's ideas on how to attain that equality, some of which she had already spelled out in her popular TED talk and the commencement speech she delivered at Barnard College in 2011.
"A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and men ran half our homes."įew would argue with this ideal of gender equality. "It is time for us to face the fact that our revolution has stalled," she writes. If you were worried that books have lost their power to spark heated national debates, Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In should put that concern to rest: The current Facebook COO and former Google executive has written a "sort of feminist manifesto" (as she writes in the book) about women in the workplace, lamenting the dearth of females in leadership positions and urging women to be more assertive in their professional ambitions.
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