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

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Women are still strikingly absent from the top. They earn 57 percent of undergraduate and 60 percent of master’s degrees in the U.S., yet hold just 4 percent of Fortune 500 CEO seats, and the pay gap has crept only from 59 cents on the dollar in 1970 to 77 cents in 2010. Sheryl Sandberg’s central argument is that this gap is held in place from two directions at once. On the outside, bias punishes ambitious women and reads them as unlikeable. On the inside, self-doubt makes many women pull back before anyone pushes. Closing it takes both halves: women leaning into opportunity, and men carrying an equal share at home.

Sheryl Sandberg on SummaryShelf

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