How does Sheryl Sandberg's brand of corporate feminism apply to working women who haven't been offered "a seat on a rocketship"? We'll find out tomorrow when she delivers the commencement speech at Harvard. Female employees at a local hotel (housed in building owned by Harvard) plan on using Sandberg's talk as an opportunity to ask the Facebook COO to back their efforts to unionize.
Last March, Sheryl Sandberg launched Lean In, a non-profit offshoot of her best-selling book. At the time of the organization's launch, it was too early to tell exactly who would benefit from the politically ambitious Facebook executive's top-down empowerment agenda. But now, one year later—after a high-profile publicity tour, a sworn commitment to diversifying stock photos, and the world's only meh Beyoncé video—and Sandberg still doesn't have a good answer.
The next stop on Sheryl Sandberg's Sheryl Sandberg Publicity Tour: our shuttered nation's capital, where the shutdown means government officials are happy to meet you, but unable to explain to anyone why.
Lean In author and Facebook executive has to fend off rumors that she'll ditch her post to be a full-time literary celeb—and maybe even run for office. Seen here on a recent visit to China's State Council Information Office
It's not news when someone isn't somewhere, but Facebook's top celebrity author sure convinced the internet otherwise: Sheryl Sandberg has thousands buzzing about the fact that she was not aboard a crashed plane today, despite zero initial reports that she ever was.
