Book description
Ask most women whether they have the right to equality at work and
the answer will be a resounding yes, but ask the same women whether
they'd feel confident asking for a raise, a promotion, or equal pay,
and some reticence creeps in.
The statistics, although an improvement on previous decades, are
certainly not in women's favour - of 197 heads of state, only
twenty-two are women. Women hold just 20 percent of seats in
parliaments globally, and in the world of big business, a meagre
eighteen of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women.
In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg - Facebook COO and one of
Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women in Business - draws on
her own experience of working in some of the world's most successful
businesses and looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make
the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more
universal scale.
Learning to 'lean in' is about tackling the anxieties and
preconceptions that stop women reaching the top - taking a place at
the table, and making yourself a part of the debate.
Sheryl Sandberg is Chief Operating Officer at Facebook. Prior to
Facebook, Sandberg was Vice President of Global Online Sales and
Operations at Google. She previously served as Chief of Staff for the
United States Treasury Department under President Bill Clinton.
