She points out that men apply to jobs when they meet merely 60 percent of the listed requirements, while women wait until they meet 100 percent. Sandberg has data on just how common these experiences are for working women. Or how often I've listened to female friends bemoan their position at work, only to scoff at the idea of asking for more responsibilities or a promotion.īut don't just take my word for it. What woman hasn't wrestled with self-doubt? With fear of sitting at the table or raising her hand? I can't even count the number of times I've entered a big meeting room only to sit along the edge of the wall - and not because I was late and there was nowhere else to sit. Women are still conspicuously absent from leadership positions, partially due to the leadership ambition gap.Most working women will find Sandberg's stories incredibly relatable. When asked whether they expected their spouse to step off their career track to raise children, 46% of the men surveyed said yes, compared to only 5% of the women.ĭespite tremendous strides, we are still far from gender equality. For example, it is broadly assumed that it is a woman’s job to raise children. This kind of “benevolent sexism” is far more dangerous than the overtly hostile kind, for the perpetrator usually has no idea how his or her attitudes hurt female colleagues and thus feels no compunction to reassess them.Īt home too, inequality lingers.
Surprisingly, the same studies show that the more impartial the evaluator claimed to be, the more they actually discriminated against women. When asked to assess the performance and growth potential of otherwise equal employees, both men and women discriminate against women.īut surely this applies only to the ignorant and misogynistic, whereas we enlightened individuals would be fair? In addition to being monetarily undervalued, studies show that women’s performance is also unfairly denigrated. A dozen eggs have gone up ten times that amount.” Nor is this problem unique to the U.S.: in Europe, the current figure is little better at 84 cents. As one activist noted wryly, “Forty years and eighteen cents.
While that figure has risen, progress has been slow: in 2010, it was still only 77 cents. But though at first glance it may seem like the battle against inequality has been won, there is still much to do.Ĭonsider compensation: In 1970, American women made 59 cents for each dollar men made in similar jobs. In today’s developed world, women are better off than ever before, thanks largely to the women’s movement in the past century.
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