Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and the founder of LeanIn.Org, through this book, has a bold approach to materialize the dream of gender equality that has been talk of generations since past few decades.
In this book she speaks of the internal and external challenges that women face in society and world in general that hinders her progress in work and weakens her efforts to leading in equity with men.
There were multiple places while reading “Lean in” where I could relate to how I as a woman have presumed notions of acting and responding to situations because of my societal effects of upbringings in an anti-feminist surrounding. According to Sheryl, where many of the holdbacks that woman face are because of the external barriers; a lot of them and honestly most of them are due to the internal barriers.
Sheryl Sandberg talks of women empowerment in this book to her audience (not only women but men too) of how we can rise women to take the lead and balance work and family together.
She, very bravely, points out all the obstacles that block the equal progress of women, highlighting the fact that women are mainly conceived to be the caretakers of the family and men as the breadwinners. Though, such rituals have been unquestioned since centuries, they can be changed if men collaborate in sharing half of the houseworks with women and women doing half the earning, she emphasizes.
Lean in is a great guide for women to take charge of their careers in an era where gender bias still breaths throughout the world. She explains everything related to her own experiences of family and work life. Sandberg also mentions that despite the biological differences in both males and females that cannot be shifted or altered, there are ways we can figure things out in the quest of achieving gender equality.
She takes the help of facts and figures to clarify her points. And while she uses American gender bias as her focus of discussion, this bias, nonetheless, can be related to any society in the world.
Henceforth, I think it is a very good book to uplift women and would like to recommend it to any woman who has a will to lead and man who equally wants gender equality to be practical.
