Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders

http://www.ted.com Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions -- and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite.

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[MrIJB89]

The funny thing about your comment is if the situation was reversed(hate for men or mens rights), as we've already seen, you probably wouldn't care or comment in defense of men. Remember this is just the *INTERNET, in *REAL LIFE when someone speaks against feminism they are ostracized and labeled a misogynist, the internet is the only place these people have the freedom to speak out against it without being called sexist, so they down vote as their only means of power, oh yeah and FUCK FEMINISM.

[wally walker]

usually i have a high level of respect for TED talks, but really? some pro-feminist whining about not enough women in the top jobs? i think someone who was interested in helping humanity might be more interested in how men make up more than 98% of workplace deaths

[Teresa van Lieshout]

Men oppress women throughout the world. Always have, and it's wrong, wrong, wrong.

[Teresa van Lieshout]

Evidence; men dominate leadership over women, throughout the world, especially in critical areas including politics, judiciary, & business. So you have control, you won't share equal leadership with women, that's the problem. The meritorious argument is to say women are not deserving, it's insulting to women. If women dominated leadership throughout the world, and we said to you, "you men have to prove yourself before we will give you equal status", then it would be oppressive, as you're doing.

[hellykitten]

Why fuck feminism though? It's not just in internet most of RL hates feminism just as well, I have never seen people get ostracized for saying they hate feminism, please elaborate? Also I don't think you personally care, but I do care about male rights I believe that men should have more say in custody battles, alimony, and I don't think that men are monsters of female oppression. Women just has about as much power as bringing other women down as men do.

[hellykitten]

4) I'm not sure why there isn't a TED men, I think that maybe its because females in our society are still trying to sort themselves out in things as this video has shown. It really hasn't been a long time since women were really given rights and there are some kinks that need to be worked out. But your right gender roles are not good for either gender, maybe you should write to TED and ask them to feature a TED about male rights?

[hellykitten]

3) This video isn't really about feminism per se, in fact it doesn't even mention the word feminism. It is talking about female empowerment in the workforce and why there is a lacking of females in higher positions. The reason why it got so many likes is because the people who watch this are the people who actively search out for these things and enjoy listing about the topic. Also I don't know if you actually watched the video but this woman makes a lot of good points.

[hellykitten]

2) Youtube is not the ONLY place where men have a voice if you ever see any media company such as clear channel communications you will see that it is mostly if not all run by rich white males. I don't see where you are seeing that the media only supports women's issue. If you could verify this somewhere I'd like to read about it and check my facts.

[hellykitten]

I'm just saying that on youtube (and alot of the internet) feminism and feminist get a lot of hate. 1) Please do not just tell me all of your beliefs while telling me to shut the fuck up that is childish, and ruins any room for an adult conversation. I admit white males get the short of the stick on being proud of being white and male. That is because of a long history of white male power over women and other races, that is not my opinion that is a fact.

[RetrogradeHeather]

There are a lot of insecure men commenting on this thread. Any hope of an intellectual discussion = out the window. FTR: I don't think that companies should change for women, but women NEED to change in order to succeed. Women need to try to succeed in the world we currently live in, instead of trying to force things to best fit our advantage. That way, no one can discount our success. We'll have done it for ourselves.

[iamemerald22]

(Y) hah.

[handfullocheez]

then earn more..this whiney bullshit is an affront to my manhood