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Sheryl Sandberg Forging Female Revolution

Facebook COO has a buzzy new book.

Sheryl Sandberg champions women—and she is anxious to prove it. With the upcoming release of her new book, Lean In, the Facebook COO hopes to launch a movement that will address and eliminate the obstacles still faced by modern working females. It's a noble quest but leads to a pivotal question: will anyone join her? In The New York Times's review, reporter Jodi Kantor is skeptical. “Even her advisers acknowledge the awkwardness of a woman with double Harvard degrees...a 9,000-square-foot house and a small army of household help urging less fortunate women to look inward and work harder.” Whether or not Sandberg will successfully reach the women she’s targeting is impossible to predict. As the Times points out, it’s a “social experiment” in the making.