Is Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" The Next Great Feminist Manifesto? - 0 views
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From an early age, girls get the message that they will have to choose between succeeding at work and being a good mother
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We internalize the negative messages we get throughout our lives—the messages that say it’s wrong to be outspoken, aggressive, more powerful than men. We lower our own expectations of what we can achieve. We continue to do the majority of the housework and child care. We compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet.
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Sandberg argues that the reason women hold themselves back in their careers is because of those messages they’ve received their entire lives: that it’s not very feminine to be aggressive or ambitious; that as a woman it’s nearly impossible to have both a career and a family. Her point isn’t that women aren’t ambitious, but rather that women are afraid to fully embrace their ambitions because they’ve been convinced of those two messages their entire lives.
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This Ms. Magazine article takes a look at Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In". A book that suggests that women have internalized negative messages about a woman's role, how a woman should behave in the workplace, where a woman belongs in the work place, etc. For example, women shouldn't be aggressive or ambitious, it's not feminine. She challenges the idea of femininity in the corporate world and encourages women to take more risks. This "Lean In" feminism is challenged by some because not every woman defines her feminism as being "more like men" as desiring to be treated fairly, like men.