I never thought I’d work in the corporate sector.”Īnd yet no one knows whether women will show up for Ms. Sandberg, 43, said: “I always thought I would run a social movement, which meant basically work at a nonprofit. In an interview for “Makers,” a new documentary on feminist history, Ms. (First assignment: a video on how to command more authority at work by changing how they speak and even sit.) When her book is published on March 11, accompanied by a carefully orchestrated media campaign, she hopes to create her own version of the consciousness-raising groups of yore: “ Lean In Circles,” as she calls them, in which women can share experiences and follow a Sandberg-crafted curriculum for career success. Sandberg, whose ideas about working women have prompted both enthusiasm and criticism, is attempting nothing less than a Friedan-like feat: a national discussion of a gender-problem-that-has-no-name, this time in the workplace, and a movement to address it. Sandberg wanted to do far more than sell books. Before Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, started to write “Lean In,” her book-slash-manifesto on women in the workplace, she rereadBetty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique.” Like the homemaker turned activist who helped start a revolution 50 years ago, Ms.
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