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The End of the Girlboss Is Here
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2302" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://gen.medium.com/the-end-of-the-girlboss-is-nigh-4591dec34ed8" target="_blank"><strong>The End of the Girlboss Is Here - Medium</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>The girlboss didn’t change the system; she thrived within it. Now that system is cracking, and so is this icon of millennial hustle.</strong></p><p></p><p>Seven years ago, if you were an ambitious young white woman seeking to break through the glass ceiling at work, Sheryl Sandberg was your mentor. Her bestselling 2013 book <em>Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead</em> was your guide to overcoming the type-A personality defects — perfectionism, people-pleasing, fear of criticism, self-doubt — holding you back from the C-suite.</p><p></p><p><em>Lean In </em>offered a game plan for success in the corporate workplace through the lens of self-improvement. Sandberg never set out to dismantle the system, but to excel inside it. (Which she has: As the COO of Facebook, her net worth is estimated to be $1.7 billion.) If women just leaned in, could we change the system through our own self-motivated behavioral choices? Institutional barriers versus internal barriers is the “ultimate chicken-and-egg situation,” she writes. But “rather than engage in philosophical arguments over which comes first, let’s agree to wage battles on both fronts.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2302, member: 1"] [URL='https://gen.medium.com/the-end-of-the-girlboss-is-nigh-4591dec34ed8'][B]The End of the Girlboss Is Here - Medium[/B][/URL] [B]The girlboss didn’t change the system; she thrived within it. Now that system is cracking, and so is this icon of millennial hustle.[/B] Seven years ago, if you were an ambitious young white woman seeking to break through the glass ceiling at work, Sheryl Sandberg was your mentor. Her bestselling 2013 book [I]Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead[/I] was your guide to overcoming the type-A personality defects — perfectionism, people-pleasing, fear of criticism, self-doubt — holding you back from the C-suite. [I]Lean In [/I]offered a game plan for success in the corporate workplace through the lens of self-improvement. Sandberg never set out to dismantle the system, but to excel inside it. (Which she has: As the COO of Facebook, her net worth is estimated to be $1.7 billion.) If women just leaned in, could we change the system through our own self-motivated behavioral choices? Institutional barriers versus internal barriers is the “ultimate chicken-and-egg situation,” she writes. But “rather than engage in philosophical arguments over which comes first, let’s agree to wage battles on both fronts.” [/QUOTE]
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