Moving on to specifics: Sandberg is good about discussing the chicken/egg question of internal and external barriers to women’s leadership - the issue that those external barriers need to fall down, but that they won’t unless individual women start pushing them. But it’s awful when it comes to realistically anchoring that advice in the context of our radically altered, high-unemployment economy. I think this book has done a creditable job at giving empowering, female-specific career advice, and igniting a broad conversation about our stalled feminist revolution. In fact, the more I thought about it, the more the ambivalence it stirred up. The bottom line is that while, for me, ultimately it adds up to a net plus, I feel considerable ambivalence about this book. I do have some things to say about the book which I haven’t heard elsewhere. I couldn’t get my hands on advance galleys of the book and had to wait until it was published to get a copy. I tried to place various incarnations of it elsewhere, but by the time I pitched them most publications were Sandberg’ed out. This is my review of Sheryl Sandberg’s best-selling book, Lean In.
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