![]() ![]() This week, Michelle Obama declared in front of a stadium-size audience, “And it’s not always enough to lean in, because that shit doesn’t work all the time.” I found myself vigorously nodding in agreement with the former first lady. A May 2018 Bloomberg Businessweek piece points out that five years later, Lean In may have helped with some incremental advancements for individual women in corporate America, but it doesn’t seem to have moved the needle at all on big issues like overall pay equity. I documented the year-long experience at Slate and was even quoted in a later edition of the book, extolling the virtues of starting a circle.įast-forward to today, when Sheryl Sandberg has been in the news for several storms of criticisms related to how she handled Russian election meddling on Facebook, where she’s the chief operating officer. I devoured its contents, and I decided to create my own Lean In Circle of women following a program created by Sandberg’s companion nonprofit,. ![]() The manifesto felt like a cross between a playbook and a bible. When Sandberg’s book, Lean In, came out, I was a 29-year-old hard-charging New York social media strategist and editor. In 2013, I was a Sheryl Sandberg superfan. ![]()
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