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Sheryl Sandberg on Women

b. 1969 United States

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I won’t stop until women run half the companies and half the countries and men are doing half the housework.

Women still largely have two jobs, and men have one.

The media rarely depict working women with children as happy and adjusted and comfortable with themselves.

Women are given messages all through their lives that they shouldn’t lead.

There aren’t enough women sitting at the tables where decisions are made.

We don’t really encourage women to be leaders.

I am not blaming women; I’m helping them see the power they’ve got and encouraging them to use it.

There’s this assumption that women can’t and men can. My goal is to change that conversation.

I think we need to expect and encourage our girls and women to lead and contribute.

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.

But the women have to run in order to get elected. And right now, they are less inclined to do so.

When we say choice, we mean women get to choose to work or have families. We don’t mean men choose to work or have families.

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?

Women face huge institutional barriers. But we also face barriers that exist within ourselves, sometimes as the result of our socialization.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sheryl Sandberg (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.