For my money, the recent video of Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, should be mandatory viewing for all women and girls. (Hat tip: Slate’s XX Factor blog.) Polished yet self-deprecating, Sandberg is absolutely spot-on in her remarks about the dearth of women in leadership positions, and what women should do to fix the problem.
Sandberg highlights three factors that derail women’s careers. You probably know the first two already:
1. Women don’t sit at the table — quite literally. Instead of taking a central seat at the conference table, women often sit on the sidelines. To succeed, she says, women need to be prominent — and, more importantly, feel they deserve it.
2. Marriages are not true partnerships. Working women do most of the housework and childcare. Men, she says, need to assume more responsibility on the home front, and society should support them in that endeavor.
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