“I feel like her words resonated with me in the same way they resonated with every person in that audience.” “I laughed,” says Audrey Kingo, deputy editor of Working Mother magazine, where the themes of “Lean In” – work/life balance, ambition, workplace culture – are constant topics of coverage and conversation.
To the women who had fallen out of love with “Lean In,” and the women who never loved it at all, these were resounding last words, received with relief and recognition.
“It’s not always enough to lean in, because that s- doesn’t work all the time.” The story left Sandberg’s long-cultivated image as a righteous feminist icon and relatable role model in shambles.īut the final, fatal blow to the “Lean In” brand was a brutally blunt dismissal from Michelle Obama: “I tell women, that whole ‘you can have it all’ – nope, not at the same time that’s a lie,” Obama told a sold-out crowd at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn during a Dec. Last month, a blockbuster investigation by the New York Times detailed Facebook’s stumbles amid an onslaught of crises, including Sandberg’s efforts to distract from the fact that Russians were using the platform to try to influence the 2016 presidential election. But in the waning weeks of 2018 – a year in which Facebook was besieged by high-profile scandals, and the #MeToo movement continued to train attention on the barriers facing working women – the potency of Sandberg’s individualistic, motivational mantra has fully eroded. Sandberg’s brand of self-empowerment feminism has endured waves of criticism ever since her 2013 bestselling book, “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead” became a cultural phenomenon. The “Lean In” movement launched by Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg is officially over.
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