Women Troubles Should leaving the kids behind be the goal?
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg   Mona Charen   In her TED talk
three years ago, and now in a book that has received lavish
attention, Sandberg laments that women “are not making it to the
top of any profession anywhere in the world. The numbers tell
the story . . . 190 heads of state — nine are women. Of all the
people in parliaments in the world, 13 percent are women. In the
corporate sector, women at the top . . . 15, 16 percent.”
Sandberg appears not to be complaining about sexism so much as
encouraging women to stop sabotaging their own success. “Studies
show,” she reports, that women are less likely to attribute
their success to their own merit than are men. They are less
likely to ask for raises or to negotiate for better terms in a
job search. When they are successful, they are less likely than
comparable males to be considered “likable.”  Those statistics
ring true to me, as I’ve noticed both from personal experience
and from studies that wome