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About Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Kara Sandberg (born August 28, 1969) is an American technology executive, philanthropist, and writer. Sandberg served as chief operating officer (COO) of Meta Platforms, a position from which she stepped down in August 2022. She is also the founder of LeanIn.Org. In 2008, she was made COO at Facebook, becoming the company's second-highest ranking official. In June 2012, she was elected to Facebook's board of directors, becoming the first woman to serve on its board.
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“I think the desire for leadership is largely culturally created and reinforced.”
“I think we need to expect and encourage our girls and women to lead and contribute.”
“If we start acknowledging what the real issues are, we can solve them. It’s not that hard.”
“There’s this assumption that women can’t and men can. My goal is to change that conversation.”
“At the same time, the world still isn’t very welcoming or respectful toward full-time at-home dads.”
“I am not blaming women; I’m helping them see the power they’ve got and encouraging them to use it.”
“The media rarely depict working women with children as happy and adjusted and comfortable with themselves.”
“If we want to balance out leadership roles in the workplace, we have to balance out responsibilities in the home.”
“We call our daughters—but not our sons—bossy. We overestimate our sons’ crawling abilities and underestimate our daughters’.”
“Similarly, I don’t think the desire for leadership is based in biology. Do we really believe men are natural leaders and women are not?”
“In our society, we don’t talk about gender, at all. I don’t understand how you fix a problem if you can’t acknowledge you have one.”
“Women face huge institutional barriers. But we also face barriers that exist within ourselves, sometimes as the result of our socialization.”
“As a woman gets more successful, she is less liked by people of both genders, and as a man gets more successful, he does not take a likability hit.”
“I think women in leadership suffer from stereotyping, and when people expect a stereotype and are reminded of a stereotype, that actually makes the stereotype stronger.”
“Reigniting the revolution means I want us to notice all of this and find ways to encourage more women to step up and more companies to recognize what women bring to the table.”
“We need to recognize that we can’t do it all, that we face trade-offs every single minute of the day. We have to stop beating ourselves up for not doing everything perfectly.”
“Colleges have a responsibility to keep our kids safe. Full stop. And protect them from hate. Full stop. And they have the ability to do this." [on 2024 Pro-Palestine College Protests]”
“We expect men to have leadership qualities, to be assertive and competent, to speak out. We expect women to have communal qualities, to be givers and sharers, to pursue the common good.”
“What has happened is that there aren’t women in leadership roles, therefore people don’t expect there to be women in leadership roles, therefore, there aren’t women in leadership roles.”
“I’m not recommending that if you want to get to the top, you should break out the tissues. But we’re human, and it’s important to broaden the kinds of behaviors that are acceptable at work.”
“But the struggles I write about are the ones all women face: the struggle to believe in yourself, to not feel guilty, to get enough sleep, to believe that you can be both a good professional and a good parent.”
“If we could get to a place of true equality, where what we do in life is determined not by gender but by our passions and interests, our companies would be more productive and our home lives not just better balanced but happier.”
“The data show that success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. Which means that as women get more successful, they are liked less—both by men and by other women. That’s because we want people to conform to our stereotypes.”
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Sheryl Sandberg on Ann E. Dunwoody 3 quotes
“I concluded my book Lean In with my hope that "in the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders." I did not know Ann when I wrote that, but she is exactly who I had in mind. What distinguishes Ann is not that she's a woman, but that she is a spectacular and inspiring leader.”
About Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Kara Sandberg (born August 28, 1969) is an American technology executive, philanthropist, and writer. Sandberg served as chief operating officer (COO) of Meta Platforms, a position from which she stepped down in August 2022. She is also the founder of LeanIn.Org. In 2008, she was made COO at Facebook, becoming the company's second-highest ranking official. In June 2012, she was elected to Facebook's board of directors, becoming the first woman to serve on its board.