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Leaning In While Black. Thanks to concerns about low marriage rates among African Americans, professional black women are bombarded with warnings about careerism and success.

Leaning In While Black

James Brown may have left this mortal coil, but one of his most famous pronouncements is as true today as in 1966: “This is a man’s world.” Only 17 of the world’s 193 countries are led by women; in the United States, women hold just 14 percent of executive officer positions and 18 percent of congressional seats. Numerous researchers have looked into why this glass ceiling persists. In a 2003 study on gender, success and likeability, professors from Columbia Business School and New York University found that a successful “Howard” is viewed as more appealing than a “Heidi” with identical accomplishments and personality traits.

Khanh Ho: Professor Wang Ping: Keynote Poet for Groundbreaking Conference at UC Berkeley. I first encountered the writing of Wang Ping as a kid, sitting on the floor of a bookstore.

Khanh Ho: Professor Wang Ping: Keynote Poet for Groundbreaking Conference at UC Berkeley

Her prose was a beautiful thing: an eagle that swept me up into a world I thought impossible to ever occupy. There was such brutal honesty in her verbiage. Every word was a whisper in my ear. Gender & Employment/Work/Labor. Why Women Still Can’t Have It All - Anne-Marie Slaughter. The culture of “time macho”—a relentless competition to work harder, stay later, pull more all-nighters, travel around the world and bill the extra hours that the international date line affords you—remains astonishingly prevalent among professionals today.

Why Women Still Can’t Have It All - Anne-Marie Slaughter

Nothing captures the belief that more time equals more value better than the cult of billable hours afflicting large law firms across the country and providing exactly the wrong incentives for employees who hope to integrate work and family. Yet even in industries that don’t explicitly reward sheer quantity of hours spent on the job, the pressure to arrive early, stay late, and be available, always, for in-person meetings at 11 a.m. on Saturdays can be intense. Indeed, by some measures, the problem has gotten worse over time: a study by the Center for American Progress reports that nationwide, the share of all professionals—women and men—working more than 50 hours a week has increased since the late 1970s. Revaluing Family Values. Why So Few Women in Silicon Valley? Sandberg's hot-button book rings true for Silicon Valley women. Sheryl Sandberg 'Lean In': Unrealistic Expectations For the Average Working Woman?

Lean In is the title of Sheryl Sandberg's book and revolutionary social movement of leading women towards workplace leadership.

Sheryl Sandberg 'Lean In': Unrealistic Expectations For the Average Working Woman?

Slated for a March book release, Sandberg has already embarked on a social media campaign worthy of her own experience as Facebook and Google trailbrazer and female executive. The book and its subject matter are already raising some eyebrows as superstar Sandberg seeks to offer women advice through offering up her own extraordinary career as a template. The mission of lean in is “to create a global community dedicated to encouraging women to lean in to their ambitions.” The detailed manual that describes how to conduct meetings and small think tanks to achieve this goal goes as far to diagram and index these brain storming sessions amongst small groups of female corporate participants.

A cult of fear is preventing women from taking the steps to scale back at the risk of appearing to be unproductive. Ms. Meg Miller. Sheryl Sandberg, ‘Lean In’ Author, Hopes to Spur Movement. Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, Has Some Career Advice For You. Women (and men) hoping for career advice from Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg needn't wait until her book is published next spring.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, Has Some Career Advice For You

On the Q&A site Quora, Sandberg chimed in on a thread that asked "What advice would seasoned women in tech give to younger girls deciding to make a tech career for themselves? " offering a lengthy answer in which she laid out her philosophy on how women can pursue a successful career in Silicon Valley. Her guidance for aspiring female professionals can be summed up in three words: banish all doubt. Elite Women Put a New Spin on Work-Life Debate. Pompom Girl for Feminism. Facebook's Sandberg wants to lead new women's movement. MENLO PARK, Calif. — Sheryl Sandberg helped build Facebook into a multibillion-dollar company.

Facebook's Sandberg wants to lead new women's movement

Now, she wants to build a new women's movement. Little did she know that the launch of her book — Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead — would so swiftly ignite a national dialogue about women in the workplace, while drawing fire from critics who see her as naive and disconnected from reality. In her only interview with a newspaper, conducted at Facebook's sprawling campus in Silicon Valley, Sandberg doesn't shy away from the fight. The book that she describes as "sort of a feminist manifesto" has been fodder for weeks now, even before its March 11 launch. Indeed, a 60 Minutes profile will air Sunday night, a segment on ABC's Good Morning America is scheduled for Monday, and Sandberg appears on the cover of Time.

Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg suddenly in crossfire. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's first book, "Lean In," is out MondayBook deals with working-women'd issues, has put Sandberg under fireSandberg was always a high achiever, whether in school, government or businessWill book change dialogue on workplace issues?

Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg suddenly in crossfire

Or is Sandberg an outlier? (CNN) -- Sheryl Sandberg is a role model, say her defenders. The chief operating officer of Facebook earned two degrees from Harvard and spent the early part of her career in public service, rising to become chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers during the latter days of the Clinton administration.

Facebook exec's new book urges women to 'lean in' 'Lean In': Not Much Of A Manifesto, But Still A Win For Women. Sheryl Sandberg tells an anecdote in her new book, Lean In, about sitting down with her boss, Mark Zuckerberg, for her first performance review as chief operating officer at Facebook.

'Lean In': Not Much Of A Manifesto, But Still A Win For Women

Zuckerberg told her that her "desire to be liked by everybody would hold [her] back. " I hope she's worked on that problem because over the past few weeks, there sure have been a lot of people hating on Sheryl Sandberg. Lean In, which Sandberg describes as "sort of a feminist manifesto," has been slammed by Maureen Dowd, Jodi Kantor, Judith Shulevitz and others for its elitism, for being hard on women and soft on institutional sexism and for making an unfair exemplar of the 43-year-old Sandberg's own Amazonian accomplishments.

(She has two Harvard degrees and a personal worth just shy of $1 billion.