Sandberg says bosses are reeling from raise requests

Sandberg says bosses reeling from 'Lean In' raise requests

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Sheryl Sandberg spoke with PwC Chairman Bob Moritz at Facebook headquarters on Tuesday.

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Shana Lynch

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Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of professional women’s manifesto “Lean In” says her book has emboldened women to knock on their bosses’ doors seeking more cash.
“Everywhere I go, CEOs say to me, ‘You are costing me so much money because all of the women who work for me are asking for raises,’” Sandberg told PricewaterhouseCoopers Chairman Bob Moritz at Facebook Inc. HQ in Menlo Park at a PwC event.
Some 300 people filled up Facebook’s video studio for “PwC Talks: Leaning In, together,” with 50 to 60 watch parties around the country tuned into the live broadcast.
If you’ve been lost in the wilderness for a year, Sandberg’s book argues for women to “lean in” to workplace opportunity and increase the ranks of women in top-level positions. High-profile execs like Cisco’s John Chambers have promised to pick up the manifesto, and Lean In networking groups have popped up around the world. Sandberg herself has traveled from Tokyo to London promoting the book, and hit the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the cover of Time Magazine.
But has she done what she set out to accomplish?
“I couldn’t be happier with what’s happened,” she told Moritz.
Her goals, she said, were to start a conversation on gender bias and lack of women in top jobs, and then lead that conversation to real change.
“If you’re me and write a book, the real risk is no one will read it at all,” she said.
Moritz quizzed Sandberg on her 18-month plan, both for Lean In and personally. For Lean In, she plans to grow community, programs and partnerships.
And personally?
“I’m doing all the leaning in I can do,” she said.
“Lean In: Women, Work & the Will to Lead” has spent 18 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. As of March, the book had sold 120,000 copies.

Shana Lynch is Managing Editor at the Business Journal. Her phone number is 408.299.1831.

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