‘Leaning In’ to the F-Word
I’m With Sheryl Sandberg. Let’s Make Feminism Less Scary—and Less Hairy.
When I was in college in the early 1980s, fresh from four years of indoctrination at a Catholic all-girls’ high school that women could be anything, do anything, and didn’t need to take a back seat to any man, I thought the women’s movement was over.
Doors were opening, right? Women, though not many yet, were showing up in engineering classes and getting degrees in business and accounting in record numbers. In 1985, the year after I graduated, for the first time in history, more American women than men got college …
