Now that Sheryl Sandberg has announced that she’s quit her job as the number two at Facebook (now Meta), I have a few thoughts about the pressure she heaped on women to create a “better world”, writes SamanthaSMorris | OPINION
, nine years ago – in which she urged women to lean in to their careers, rather than out – I was too tired to do what I felt like doing, which was to start tearing stuff apart with my bare hands.
Fearful as I was that yet another maternity leave would kill, once and for all, any gusto I had for my career, this wasn’t exactly the picture of journalistic ambition I had long aspired to give off.quit her job as the number two at Facebook , I have a few thoughts about the pressure she heaped on women to create a “better world”.
When my kids would tell me, with downcast eyes, that I’d forgotten to attend another school event, I’d feel my heart in my throat, but also, secretly, the internal glow of queasy righteousness. This is the price you had to pay, I’d say to myself – backed by Sandberg’s lauded “movement” – for your kids to know that women’s careers matter as much as men’s.
“I smacked her out of complete frustration,” she says of the incident, which happened in the car in the chaotic morning rush. “I hit her hard. I hit her with intention. I’ve never forgotten it.” Leaning out won’t be the answer for all women – and it’s an unimaginable luxury for many – but leaning in is a goal with flawed assumptions: that women gaining power and wealth is the only factor needed for a “better world”, and that professional productivity is the ultimate sign of success.
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