LEAN IN: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, by Sheryl Sandberg. Knopf, 2013, 240 pp., $24.95 (hardcover)
Sheryl Sandberg, 43, chief operating officer of Facebook, is also the first and only woman to sit on its board. She has held senior positions at Google, the U.S. Treasury and the World Bank. She graduated from Harvard with accolades, earns millions of dollars, is wife to David, who does his 50 percent share of domestic duties, and mother of two children, aged 5 and 7, who apparently rarely see her but that's OK, because a therapist said so.
She is clearly smart, so it's a mystery how Sandberg is so short on common sense and has fallen for the oldest trick in the book. In "Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead," Sandberg shows very little awareness of herself or the ridiculous nature of the system that she so doggedly and determinedly embraces.