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Lean In

  • 292 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2013
  • 26 editions

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1 About this book

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women's voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives.

In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women's progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled, explains the root causes, and offers compelling, commonsense solutions that can empower women to achieve their full potential.

Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TEDTalk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers.

Good for readers who want: a true life story, psychology, and business.

  • Women, psychology
  • Personal Memoirs
  • Psychology
  • Biography & autobiography
  • Business & economics
  • Management Science
  • Leadership
  • Working Women

2 About Sheryl Sandberg

Born 1969

Sheryl Kara Sandberg (born August 28, 1969) is an American technology executive, philanthropist and writer. She was the chief operating officer of Meta Platforms from 2008 to 2022 and is the founder of LeanIn. Org. Sandberg is the first woman to have been elected to Facebook's board of directors. As head of the company's advertising business, Sandberg has been credited for making the company profitable.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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