![]() It became a worldwide bestseller, but was criticised by some for being elitist and unrealistic for many women not in her privileged position. Ms Sandberg made headlines in 2013 with her book “Lean in” about female empowerment in the workplace. Whereas it is boys that are being failed by schools, more girls than boys are graduating from college and now lead in such fields as law and medicine, and young men are still committing suicide at a far higher rate than women. The fact we have a female COO carping at us in the national press ought to tell us that this isn’t really a problem. Who, and where, are girls being told they cannot lead because of their gender? All I see on the webpages of major corporations is how important women are and how proud they are to have a load of them in senior positions. We’ve had women leaders since at least Cleopatra. “…and we should let people choose that not based on their gender but on who they are and who they want to be.” ![]() If you’ve not understood this, you’ve not understood leadership at all. Not everyone is a leader, just as not everyone is a loyal lieutenant, and not everyone is an essential specialist, and not everyone is an equally important plodder. “I believe everyone has inside them the ability to lead…” We do? Okay, I can probably believe that in some countries with cultures we’re encouraged to embrace that little girls are told not to lead, but in the West? Really? Who is saying this, and where? This is bullshit. She said: “We start telling little girls not to lead at a really young age and we start to tell boys lead at a very young age. It’s one way to become empowered, I suppose. ![]() She chose Beyonce’s empowering Run The World (Girls) as her first song. Until somebody decided to shoot up a nightclub in Germany, this was running as front-page news on the BBC’s website:įairer pay for women must be backed up by stronger policies at work, according to Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg.īut the firm’s chief operating officer, in an interview for BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, said the first step is to “start paying women well”.
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