![]() ![]() One size doesn’t fit all.”ĭuring the interview with Black Enterprise, Sandberg acknowledged that her original book left out women of color, but she still leaned into the same rhetoric of dumping the responsibility back onto Black women instead of calling out the systemic barriers that continue to hold Black women back. “Lean In didn’t talk about race and it was written from a white-privileged women’s perspective for predominantly other white women. “Lean In was well-intentioned and opened up the conversation, but, you cannot effectively talk about leaning in for Black or brown women without discussing the role that race plays and the barriers to even enter the room for a seat at the table,” said Harts. ![]() The strategy has been criticized by many thought leaders, including Michelle Obama who notably said, “that shit doesn’t work all the time.” And this quote from Mindy Harts, founder of The Memo sums up the basis of the criticism through a racialized lens: ![]() It was rooted in the fact that Sandberg’s Lean In advice has fallen flat for most women, and more specifically for Black women. Last week, Black Enterprise magazine published an interview with COO of Facebook and CEO of Lean In Sheryl Sandberg. ![]()
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