{"id":31482,"date":"2015-05-29T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31482"},"modified":"2015-10-11T13:50:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T17:50:32","slug":"lean-in-may-not-be-the-best-advice-for-women-to-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/lean-in-may-not-be-the-best-advice-for-women-to-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lean in&#8221; may not be the best advice for women to follow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>The Observer<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2015\/05\/science-says-lean-in-is-filled-with-flawed-advice-likely-to-hurt-women\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Alkon<\/a> suggests that following the &#8220;lean in&#8221; advice may lead to unanticipated problems for a lot of women:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Remember junior high? Well, the reality is, if you\u2019re a woman, you never really get to leave.<\/p>\n<p>This rather depressing truth about adult mean girls isn\u2019t one you\u2019ll read in Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg\u2019s best-selling book, <em>Lean In<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, according to a near mountain of research on sex differences, the \u201cYou go, career girl!\u201d advice Ms. Sandberg does give is unrealistic and may even backfire on women who take it.<\/p>\n<p>The problem starts with her book\u2019s title, unreservedly advising women to \u201clean in\u201d \u2014 to boldly assert themselves at the office \u2014 without detailing the science that lays out the problems inherent in that.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Sandberg goes clueless on science throughout her book; for example, never delving into what anthropological research suggests about why women are not more supportive of one another and why it may not be reasonable for a woman to expect other women in her workplace to be supportive of her in the way men are of other men and even women.<\/p>\n<p>Joyce Benenson, a psychologist at Emmanuel College in Boston, doesn\u2019t have Sandberg\u2019s high profile, but she\u2019s done the homework (and research) that\u2019s missing from Sandberg\u2019s book, laying it out in a fascinating science-based book on sex differences, <em>Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Observer, Amy Alkon suggests that following the &#8220;lean in&#8221; advice may lead to unanticipated problems for a lot of women: Remember junior high? Well, the reality is, if you\u2019re a woman, you never really get to leave. This rather depressing truth about adult mean girls isn\u2019t one you\u2019ll read in Facebook COO Sheryl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,831],"tags":[95,139,303,43],"class_list":["post-31482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-business","tag-jobs","tag-psychology","tag-sexism","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8bM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31483,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31482\/revisions\/31483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}