Lean In
If Books Could Kill
Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
4.6 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In 2013, Sheryl Sandberg became an icon for women who wanted to move from middle management at a tech company into upper management at a tech company. Today, Peter and Michael examine the contents of her bestselling book, survey the wreckage of corporate feminism and ask whether women will finally find liberation in the Metaverse.
Where to find us:
Sources:
- Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not
- Feminism's Tipping Point: Who Wins from Leaning in?
- One Cheer for Lean In
- Is there an implicit quota on women in top management? A large‐sample statistical analysis
- Female tokens in high-prestige work groups: Catalysts or inhibitors of group diversification?
- Want Equal Pay? Get a Union.
- The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
- What Was the Girlboss?
- New Research: Women Who Don’t Negotiate Might Have a Good Reason
- Now, Women Do Ask: A Call to Update Beliefs about the Gender Pay Gap
- What’s It Like Inside the Hive? Managerial Discretion Drives TMT Gender Diversity of Women-Led Firms
- I asked Facebook if I could work part-time from home after I had my baby. They said no—so I quit
- Women in the Workplace 2023
- Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome
- Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
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| 0:00.0 | Michael? |
| 0:01.0 | Peter. |
| 0:02.0 | What do you know about lean in? |
| 0:03.0 | All I know is that it's the perfect book for women who want to start a family and also help Mark Zuckerberg do some |
| 0:09.0 | genocides. Lean in |
| 0:24.0 | women work and the will to lead. |
| 0:26.0 | We're experts on all three. |
| 0:28.0 | People come to this podcast or triple expertise. |
| 0:31.0 | You know, I read so many reviews of this book but I think that there's one thing that we can offer that none of those reviews could and that's a male perspective. They said two men couldn't have a |
| 0:44.3 | podcast. We proved them wrong every day. The first two guys to do it folks. |
| 0:48.4 | What do you know about Cheryl Sandberg? All I know is what was in the singer? |
| 0:53.9 | That she's like, she's like a Facebook lady, |
| 0:56.4 | like a sort of number two for Mark Zuckerberg. |
| 0:59.8 | And, yeah, and we've reached, I was gonna go somewhere with that sentence, but we've reached the limits of my knowledge I don't think I'd ever heard of her before this book came out. I think the I think that's true of most people. She's a Harvard MBA. She went to work for a young Google and then a young Facebook. |
| 1:16.3 | She was an early innovator in driving ads, which is of course how both of those companies |
| 1:21.1 | became ludicrously profitable. |
| 1:23.6 | So she got very rich. |
| 1:26.0 | Hundreds of millions of dollars at the time of this publication, |
| 1:29.2 | now something just south of $2 billion. |
| 1:31.5 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:32.0 | When she wrote this book book she had been Facebook's |
| 1:34.8 | C.O. For about five years so that's sort of where she is professionally. She was a |
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