{"id":1810,"date":"2016-05-22T07:25:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T12:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feminem.org\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2016-05-20T14:30:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T19:30:36","slug":"aliem-book-club-lean-women-work-will-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feminem.org\/2016\/05\/22\/aliem-book-club-lean-women-work-will-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"ALiEM Book Club: Lean In: Women, Work and The Will to Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe still have a problem\u201d Sheryl Sandberg alarms us in her influential 2010 TED Talk,Why we have too few women leaders<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWomen are not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world.\u201d While women are getting more college degrees and graduate degrees, and more women are entering the workforce than ever before, when it comes to leadership positions, women do not come close to matching their\u00a0male counterparts. \u201cThe blunt truth is that men still run the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/span>Sandberg believes that the key to fixing this problem is to keep women in the workforce. In her book, Lean In: Women, Work, and The Will to Lead<\/em><\/a>, she points out that the way to prevent women from dropping out of the workforce is by focusing on change at the individual level. She asks that we all do our part to change the\u00a0messages we tell ourselves, the women we work with, and what we share with our daughters.<\/p>\n

Lean In<\/em> offers 3\u00a0valuable pieces of advice for all women who want to stay in the workforce and pursue leadership:<\/p>\n

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  1. Sit at the table.<\/li>\n
  2. Don\u2019t leave before you leave.<\/li>\n
  3. Make your partner a real partner.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    SYNOPSIS<\/h3>\n

    While Lean In<\/em> is a book about advice for women and the workplace, it also serves as a pseudo-memoir where Sandberg outlines her pathway to a successful professional life starting with her childhood, descriptions of\u00a0her mentors, highlights of critical moments in her college and post college years, and the variety of jobs she held before COO of Facebook. Each chapter\u00a0focuses upon an important lesson illustrated\u00a0with\u00a0personal\u00a0examples, critical\u00a0references, and hard numbers. Through the book\u2019s\u00a0dialogue the\u00a0reader learns\u00a0that Sandberg\u2019s decisions along her career path were not merely\u00a0intuitive, but based upon considerable deliberation and weighing of priorities. Sandberg skillfully balances her own experience\u00a0with\u00a0\u00a0numerous examples from\u00a0other colleagues, mentors and friends \u2013 both men and women \u2013 in attempt to\u00a0provide a more\u00a0widespread discussion\u00a0of her conclusions about the United States\u00a0current work culture. The book, of course is published before the widely known tragic death of her husband Dave Goldberg in May of 2015. However, because the book is written as a means to start a conversation, the reader is encouraged to Lean In<\/em> and go further. The reader walks away from the book, not necessarily an expert, or with the tools to exactly obtain success, but rather with considerable evidence to ponder upon as they determine what \u201cLean In\u201d means to them, their life partner, and their personal and professional goals.<\/p>\n

    See rest of the post on Academic Life in EM<\/a><\/p>\n