She embodied the proof that women could achieve their wildest dreams if they worked hard and diligently enough over the course of their careers. The seriousness with which Sandberg’s advice was taken was bolstered by her meteoric rise in the tech world in her 30s. Sandberg’s place of privilege was obvious, but her advice was actionable, and-for a particular subset of women on the verge of promotions to management that might mean both a boost in personal meaning and a measure of security and comfort to offer her family-it appeared to be sound.
As Zuckerberg said announcing the hire, “Sheryl understands Facebook’s goal of connecting everyone in the world and is passionate about building a business that will enable us to realize this mission.” And its mission was still wrapped in the auspices of providing a unique social good, a mechanism for human connection enabled by technological advancement and the big vision of its founder. Facebook was a young company, already a sensation yet mostly known for connecting college students. Sandberg became Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s chief operating officer in 2008, when the founder was just 23 years old. It took a pandemic and a prolonged political crisis to show what her critics had said from the beginning: a feminism singly focused on putting women in power through their own self-efficacy will neither change the gendered balance of power nor make the world a more just and equal place.
And yet her own record there may be the most powerful indictment of Lean In’s tenets (and there were plenty already).
Now Sandberg is leaving Facebook after a 14-year tenure, most of which she spent as its second-most-famous executive.
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