Growing up in North Miami Beach, Sheryl Sandberg was always the top
of her class and never rebelled against her parents—until junior high.
As her mother recalls,
“One day she came home from school and said, ‘Mom, we have a problem.
You’re not ready to let me grow up.'” Her mother couldn’t help but
concur: “I said, ‘You’re right.’ The minute she said it, I knew she was
right.”
This managerial gravitas would come to inform all of Sandberg’s
ventures, from her role as chief of staff to US treasury secretary Larry
Summers, her six years as a vice president at Google, and her current
role as chief operating officer at Facebook.
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In the light of the recent revelations that the BBC is paying its female presenters less than their male colleagues, I thought this article was relevant to the topic.
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg
has called for public policy changes to help improve women’s pay and
claimed that women underestimate their worth, which prevents them from
asking for wage rises.
Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook,
told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs on Sunday she believed job
openings should be contested by equal numbers of women and men.
“We need to start paying women well and we need the public and the
corporate policy to get there,” she said. “Certainly, women applying for
jobs at the same rate as men, women running for office at the same rate
as men, that has got to be part of the answer.”
Sandberg is estimated by Forbes magazine
to be worth $1.7bn (£1.3bn), but she told the Desert Island Discs
presenter Kirsty Young she experienced self-doubt while studying at
Harvard and recognised that women underestimated their worth more than
men, which stopped them putting themselves forward or asking for a pay
rise.
