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via Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg at Barnard: “Men run the world” – May. 18, 2011
“What if men ran half of households around the world and women ran half the companies? Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg thinks the world would be a better place.
Sandberg offered that idea in her commencement speech on Tuesday in New York to a group of 600 graduating students from all-women college Barnard, as well as their camera-festooned families.”
Her message: “There aren’t enough women in the workforce, and the gender gap is very much part of our society.”
“Men run the world,” she told the audience, before rolling out a list of statistics to support the statement. One eye-popping one: Among the world’s 190 major heads of states, nine are women. Those numbers haven’t moved in the past decade.”
Sandberg is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Chief Operating Officer, lending her experience and operational expertise, having served as chief of staff for the Treasury Department and her extensive contacts with advertisers from her time as a top executive at Google (GOOG, Fortune 500). Many investors and venture capitalists require experienced management, sometimes known as “adult supervision” for their young techie geniuses before they part with their money. Sandburg is sometimes referred to as filling this role for 27 year old Mark Zuckerberg.
She urged women to be more aggressive in seeking to climb the corporate or government ladder: “Women underestimate their performance.”
The only antidote to the hurdles that may be thrown in your path is to work hard, aim high and do your job well. And, of course, Sheryl Sandberg is an inspiration to women seeking to climb the ladder as she is the operational power behind what is described at “the tech world’s hottest company.”
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