Lean In

Being Part of – and Apart from – ‘Leaning In’

Featured at Journalism and Women Symposium / Mary Curtis

This has been the year of Sheryl Sandberg and “leaning in,” and, of course, the Journalism & Women Symposium would be in the middle of this timely debate. It’s part of our JAWS mission, after all. And it’s not as though we haven’t been posing similar questions for quite a while. As I asked in […]

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Do black women need lessons on ‘leaning in’?

Featured at The Washington Post / Mary Curtis

Although Sheryl Sandberg’s book came out just weeks ago, it seems we’ve been talking “Lean In” forever. Is the manifesto about women not doing enough or trying to do too much? Will busy working women be able to spare the time to see its lessons as valuable rather than additions to already crowded to-do lists?

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