![]() ![]() They would not take the first offer for such a high-level position. ![]() Her husband and brother-in-law urged her to negotiate. After multiple interviews with Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, she was offered the position of Chief Operating Officer. After six years at Google, she was approached by Facebook for an executive position. Sheryl Sandberg is a successful business woman who rose to a leadership role at a young age at Google after having worked for the federal government in the Treasury Department. Even as a young girl, the difference between how she and her brother viewed themselves and the world was already setting in. She would sulk over a disappointment and blame herself, while her brother blamed circumstances for any setback and go off and play basketball. Yet her brother was more confident in his abilities than she was. Sheryl grew up in a stable home with loving parents who supported her and believed in her abilities. Sandberg also sites a number of research studies that back up the claims of gender-bias with the obvious conclusion that sexism is not the fantasy of women and that it’s alive and well in today’s workforce. ![]() The author provides rich examples and anecdotes from her own career and experiences as well as those of female colleagues, staff members and friends and acquaintances. “Lean In” by Sheryl Sandberg is a non-fiction work that chronicles the struggles of women in the workplace – past and present – in facing the challenges and barriers that they encounter in the form of gender-bias. ![]()
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