There’s something shortsighted about Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘lean in movement’

As Michelle Obama said about it in an unguarded moment, ‘sometimes that s**t doesn’t work’

10 June 2022 - 11:57

I have always been a bit unnerved by Sheryl Sandberg. There is something so American about her. Striving and smooth and helmet heady all at once. No 2 to Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, now Meta. Youngest dollar billionaire, give or take a Kardashian. Author of Lean In — not a book but a movement...

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