Sheryl Sandberg is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune's 50 Most Influential Women in Business and Top 100 Most Influential People in the World world according to Time. Sandberg chooses Lean In to examine why women's progress is blocked in reaching leadership positions. It provides in-depth insight into root causes while proposing compelling, common-sense solutions that can enable women to realize their full potential. Although this book by Facebook's COO is ostensibly about women in the workplace, it's actually about subconscious cognitive biases. The majority of Americans may consider women and men to be equal in appearance, but the fact that women still lag behind men in pay and leadership positions indicates that something else is going on. thing. these are young people and middle-class working women. The quote below about the book is the main selling point of this book. “When a girl tries to lead, she is often labeled as bossy. Boys are rarely called bossy because a boy who takes over ...