Having read Careless People, the brilliant book about Facebook and its toxic culture…knowing that Sandberg is the brains behind Lean In this doesn’t surprise me. Your analysis is spot on. Thank you for naming the thing.
This report made me furious, and the more I read, the funnier I found it. It's such a bad analysis of data that it reads like satire - as if the writers of the report - likely execs with a very specific political agenda, swooped in on the interns producing the research and shat all over everything, haphazardly and quickly rewrote the entire thing, and took out basically all meaningful ties to the data... just sooo.... likely that neither of their organizations would actually have to DO anything, other than create a bogus & mandatory "mentorship" program.
It's difficult to express how shocking and appalling this failure to address, let alone mention, care responsibilities in an analysis of women's careers.
I’VE NEVER SUBSCRIBED TO ANYONE SO FAST. My eyes are still spinning trying to digest what I’m reading here from this report & I can’t wait to curl up in a dark corner when I can get the chance to read it for myself! Your headline about them forgetting women are mothers is like the WHOLE PROBLEM EVERYWHERE.
Why are we so invisible?! Maybe we’re too polite or too good at pretending like it’s all no big deal except it’s the BIGGEST DEAL.
Also, what if that “career ambition” has a season and doesn’t fall within the constraints of their little experiment? Women are excellent at prioritizing, and when it comes to motherhood - maybe, just MAYBE that becomes the most important ambition they can have at that point in their life; and sorry not sorry if that falls into the black hole of their analysis. They can go ahead and come up with their data and their reports - we’re too busy to explain ourselves to companies who pretend to care and we’ve got more important work to do to. ✌🏻
This is crazy that motherhood isn't acknowledged in the report. The motherhood penalty is still so real and not even considered by majority. Society really just expects women to work like they don't have to care for kids, and care for kids like they don't have to work. I'm glad to be hopefully addressing this more in a corporate setting through my own work in 2026 🙏
I found this frustrating for similar reasons. The report holds women to an unchanged, male-centered structure, ignores caregiving, and centers sponsorship as the fix. It also stops short of using its platform to define what meaningful commitment to women should be. Perhaps that’s a framework we need to start writing ourselves- we can recruit women who cover various angles!
This is appalling. Thank you for taking the time to read this! I cannot believe that out of all of the data, what they chose to lead with is "women are less interested in being promoted than men" with no further qualifications 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Having read Careless People, the brilliant book about Facebook and its toxic culture…knowing that Sandberg is the brains behind Lean In this doesn’t surprise me. Your analysis is spot on. Thank you for naming the thing.
This following the absurd article from NYT about women ruining the workforce is everything we need to know about how corporate America really feels.
This report made me furious, and the more I read, the funnier I found it. It's such a bad analysis of data that it reads like satire - as if the writers of the report - likely execs with a very specific political agenda, swooped in on the interns producing the research and shat all over everything, haphazardly and quickly rewrote the entire thing, and took out basically all meaningful ties to the data... just sooo.... likely that neither of their organizations would actually have to DO anything, other than create a bogus & mandatory "mentorship" program.
It's difficult to express how shocking and appalling this failure to address, let alone mention, care responsibilities in an analysis of women's careers.
I’VE NEVER SUBSCRIBED TO ANYONE SO FAST. My eyes are still spinning trying to digest what I’m reading here from this report & I can’t wait to curl up in a dark corner when I can get the chance to read it for myself! Your headline about them forgetting women are mothers is like the WHOLE PROBLEM EVERYWHERE.
Why are we so invisible?! Maybe we’re too polite or too good at pretending like it’s all no big deal except it’s the BIGGEST DEAL.
Also, what if that “career ambition” has a season and doesn’t fall within the constraints of their little experiment? Women are excellent at prioritizing, and when it comes to motherhood - maybe, just MAYBE that becomes the most important ambition they can have at that point in their life; and sorry not sorry if that falls into the black hole of their analysis. They can go ahead and come up with their data and their reports - we’re too busy to explain ourselves to companies who pretend to care and we’ve got more important work to do to. ✌🏻
This is crazy that motherhood isn't acknowledged in the report. The motherhood penalty is still so real and not even considered by majority. Society really just expects women to work like they don't have to care for kids, and care for kids like they don't have to work. I'm glad to be hopefully addressing this more in a corporate setting through my own work in 2026 🙏
The stats in this report were alarming.
I found this frustrating for similar reasons. The report holds women to an unchanged, male-centered structure, ignores caregiving, and centers sponsorship as the fix. It also stops short of using its platform to define what meaningful commitment to women should be. Perhaps that’s a framework we need to start writing ourselves- we can recruit women who cover various angles!
This is appalling. Thank you for taking the time to read this! I cannot believe that out of all of the data, what they chose to lead with is "women are less interested in being promoted than men" with no further qualifications 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
So much research work needs to be done about women in the workplace and their care giving roles.