Complete video at: fora.tv Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg reflects on her own experiences as a mother and a woman in the corporate world to call for social change in the work / home balance between men and women. “We all lose because of this (imbalance),” she says. “We limit women’s ability to contribute in the workforce and, even more importantly, we limit men’s ability to contribute at home.” —– Companies perform better if their female talent is equally integrated, but a decade of data reflects only marginal change in this area. How can we move beyond awareness towards action? In partnership with the World Economic Forum, CNBC hosts this debate focusing on gender parity. – World Economic Forum Sheryl Sandberg joined Facebook in March 2008 as chief operating officer. In this role, she is responsible for Facebooks business operations, including sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy, privacy, and communications. Ms. Sandberg joined Facebook after six years at Google, where she served as vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations. In that role, she built and managed Googles online sales channels and managed global operations for Googles consumer products. Ms. Sandberg was also a leader for the companys philanthropic efforts. She created the Google Grants program, which donated over 0 million dollars of advertising to nonprofits worldwide. The Economist called her the unseen driving force behind the creation of Google.org …
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To the first:
Ah, suffice to say it is…different.
To the second:
When the two genders are treated as equals in terms of potential, ability, et cetera. Different to be sure, but both are of identical “importance” or “power”, though the latter is another term that does not do a terribly accurate job of conveying the concept.
what culture do you come from anyway?
What is your idea of gender equality?
People make their own choices, what does this woman want to do, force women to do things they don’t freely choose to do? These women had choices, they could have not had families, they could have insisted on working, they could have insisted on their husbands staying in the home. What is holding them back? There are more women in colleges, they just choose different paths in life.
I always cringe when i hear this kind of talk because it is talk of social engineering.
The culture I came from enjoys absolute gender equality – we literally never thought of the idea of something called “sexism”. It has served us very well.
Do what?
Ideals are dangerous.
I was being sarcastic, though your answer shows extremely immature your position really is. There are a host of other factors that affect gender roles and I find it disappointing that so many people here on YouTube choose only to look in biology for answers on the subject.
booooo hoo hooo, life isn’t fair.
don’t mold truth to the funny feelings in your stomach…you don’t have the capacity to judge whether our physical differences are worthless or not, all you have is your ideology of “equality = everyone wear suits.” if only there were speeches glorifying staying at home instead of just saying “why can’t men do it,” then i wouldn’t have to inform people like you of your intentions.
gender roles are arbitrary?? really? it was my understanding that they were the social manifestations of the physical differences evolution put into men/women. what because feminism only allows the most literal and inferiority-complex-heavy understanding of “men and women are equal” you think it has some bearing on reality?
its in the genes, you can’t change it
Um, oiuoiu was definitely NOT championing any point that I made. He was asserting Ann Coulters ridiculous notion that all conservatives have to do is outbreed liberals.
“evolution.. puts an end to the blood line of people with your way of thinking”
Evolution of blood lines has little to do with dominant cultural themes.
As for meme’s I think that they are definitely subject to evolution. But perhaps not in the way you might think. Meme fitness affects memes not people.
@sammcalpine
i think oiuoiu988 was just championing the point you made that outdated ideas which no longer serve society are subject to natural selection. Of course it’s absurd that ideas or ways of thinking could be transmitted genetically, but consider for a moment that maybe memes, as Dawkins defined them, could be subject to the Darwin’s idea of “survival of the fittest”. What are your thoughts?
MEN ARE GOOD AT WORKING AND MAKING MONEY, WOMEN ARE GOOD AT COOKING AND CLEANING. No, it’s not 1910, it’s Youtube. Sad.
Nobody’s limiting anyone. The problem is from women who keep viewing the world of working men as “upward”. We should be looking at the world as a series of horizontally-equivalent options, not a vertical ladder hierarchy. From the horizontal perspective you see there’s nothing special about where most men wind up career-wise, and the same for women. That different genders tend to go different directions is NOT a problem. So, why all the complaining? This woman just wants more women on her path.
I think it would be more interesting if she would explain what is limiting women from contributing in the work force. I would argue there is nothing limiting women from pursuing their dreams. I think its pretty obvious to most that women and men have different interest and this is the main driving force of what people pursue. However, if there is blame to be placed on why these interest diverge so greatly I would blame our culture and religious propaganda.
Different, but equal. Neither is better than the other.
Yes, such a system has inherent instabilities, but if we could do it, you can as well.
I never married and never had kids by choice. I also never was very interested in breaking the glass ceiling or moving into the corner office. All those high-profile jobs she wants women to take are nothing I ever strove for because I didn’t want all the stress those came with. All that mattered to me was a decent salary and time to do the things I wanted. Those were my choices and there are no regrets. I’m not living my life to impress Sandberg.
@fdny9682 probably.
Dude Sowells right on the money with this, exactly how does she xpect this to be accomplished, State run daycare?
A woman, just like any other human being, should have the right to choose the path she wants to follow in life; and a man should be allowed to be a real man (more & more difficult nowadays) and still be an important and nurturing part of his child upbringing!!!…Thank Goddess this is not the 1950′s anymore!!!
is she really arguing that women being hard wired to care for their offspring is a cultural loss? wow.
paging thomas sowell.
Usually I’m a bit more diplomatic than this.
The working environment, dominated by men, has worked for centuries. In many trades, most women want nothing to do with the environment, and all too often can’t perform the duties the job requires.
The women has been the conveyors of compassion to the offspring. The men have been a bit more functional in the psychological sense. Both have equal value for the ‘ankle biters’. Where’s the compassion in a woman who’s 3/2 the way up the corp ladder?
women are better at housework than men, men are better at earning income than women. It only make sense to do what you are good at doing.
What’s the problem?
Child-rearing is what most women have chosen to do and that is that. I’m sure men would love to do that too, but it appears that this society prefers to give males the short end of the deal.
People seem to like driving social change out of experience and plenty of emotion.