Sheryl Sandberg recently stepped down as the Chief Operating Officer of Meta. It brought to mind her famous title “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead”, a manifesto for why a woman can work outside the home and succeed at it.
There was much in her message that I clung onto when the book came out in 2015. I was a mother of a toddler up at 3am fetching warm milk, a lawyer in top brass law firms, a wife to a surgeon with heavy work pressures, a big sister and boss to au pairs figuring out their life journey, and a tired human on long commuter train rides. Sheryl comforted me. Particularly her message that the children of a woman working outside the home do just as well as children with a stay-at-home mother.
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