Sheryl Sandberg has received a lot of press coverage, most of it pretty positive, for her book "Lean In".

As COO of Facebook, she must have known a great deal about what was going on... it would be very interesting for me, given her talk of leadership, if she were asked some questions about this....

Seeing how quickly this entirely negative, picky-pants review got voted to the front page of hacker news has inspired me to purchase and start reading Lean In immediately.

It makes me think there must be something to this book.

Solid (positive) review. I too have read Lean In and recommend it to the men as much (if not more) than women I work with.

I take some issues to some of Sandberg's arguments but the book is tremendous overall. Has changed my attitude considerably.

Sheryl Sandberg wrote a very influential book about (her perspective on) being a woman in today's workplace called Lean In.

She's often described as the emotional heart of Facebook and is one of the few truly powerful women in tech and the only one currently directly engaging in the debate on the issues associated with that.

You can watch her truly inspiring talk on TED to get an idea of what it's all about: http://www.ted.com/talks/sheryl_sandberg_why_we_have_too_few...

On mobile so haven't got exact links to hand so you might have to do some googling to find the exact things I mention. There's a study which examined pull requests to certain open source projects on GitHub and compared approval rates for accounts which could be identified as female (name or profile picture) with those of men, and also of those known to belong to females but where you could not tell from the profile. They found interesting differences in approvals ratings.

On a more general note the book Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg is a good read if you're interested in learning about biases you (whether man or woman) might have. The book is thoroughly cited and aims to be productive rather than an attack on men and does a great job in my opinion. It points out certain things such as how certain traits are seen as positive in men and negative in women and how this manifests itself in the workplace.
It definitely helped me spot things I was guilty of without even realising before

"Facebook... Used chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg’s feminist memoir Lean In to “bond” with female European commissioners it viewed as hostile."

and

"the memo reveals that Sandberg’s feminist memoir was perceived as a lobbying tool by the Facebook team and a means of winning support from female legislators for Facebook’s wider agenda"

cute.

from https://leanin.org/book

In response to Sheryl’s 2010 TEDTalk on the ways women are held back—and the way we hold ourselves back—viewers around the world shared their own stories of struggle and success. This overwhelming response inspired Sheryl to write this book. In Lean In, she shares her personal stories, uses research to shine a light on gender differences, and offers practical advice to help women achieve their goals. The book challenges us to change the conversation from what women can’t do to what we can do, and serves as a rallying cry for us to work together to create a more equal world.

I guess that in a more equal world men and women can more equally act in a morally reprehensible way.

>"Mr. Stamos had been a strong advocate inside the company for investigating and disclosing Russian activity on Facebook, often to the consternation of other top executives, including Sheryl Sandberg, the social network’s chief operating officer..."

This is quite a telling - advocating for transparency and disclosure put this individual at odds with the C0O Sheryl Sandberg. It's worth noting that Chapter 6 of Sandberg's very successful book "Lean In" is titled "Seek and Speak the Truth."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_In

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And Sandberg is the COO of Facebook and author of the book Lean In, about women in tech / business.

We all know "Lean In" is a ploy to get her into the national election psyche. She is probably a better candidate than most of the other jokers. However, we really can't take the book that seriously nor it's pseudo science. I listened to a NPR event by her and was so surprised how she used stereotypes about men to dispel stereotypes about women and no one once called her on it!
It's very simple. She now has "business" background, she is using Lean In to recruit activist women who she needs as volunteers. Her Facebook credentials will endear her to younger voters as well. So she will get some of independents who might like her business background. She will get the female and youth vote. So on paper she is a good candidate and the book is her gateway.

> This seems like non-news to me.

Well, they do state their analysis is consistent with other data available (which they cite).

> Really, what we are discussing here is lowering of inhibition.

Not sure why you're getting down-voted, I think that's fairly accurate. I just read Sandberg's Lean In (recommended by a colleague), from the perspective of a male manager for multiple teams with women at multiple levels (I have 2 to 3 levels of folks below me and all my bosses are women). This concept of affluence lowering inhibition seems to hit Sandberg's thesis and frustration on the head. She knows, knows, friends-with-Gloria-Steinem, knows, that women worked really hard to get what they have, and she worries the current generation is not consolidating those gains and pushing forward but may instead be ceding won territory.

But that's consistent with the resource hypothesis. They has, so they don't want moar. They want to be who they believe they should be, which, at least based on the 6 metrics I see in the paper, seems to be generally nicer people.

Interestingly, IF I read that right, then by correlation, in those same affluent, gender-equal societies, the model predicts men would tend to be more male.

From my understanding, Sheryl is not against the idea of "standing up". She simply realizes that the world is not perfect, and no matter the amount of "personal power" or "self confidence" a woman has, sometimes the cards are just unfairly stacked against women.

That sucks.

Lean In is just as much for men to read as it is for women. Gender is a component in nearly every interaction in today's business world. Race still is too.

Sheryl does not attempt to say that women cannot overcome these challenges, but instead she simply takes a no bullshit approach by admitting that those challenges do exist. Why kid ourselves and pretend they don't? Recognizing that those challenges exist is our biggest hurdle as a society, eliminating them is much easier from that point forward.