Sexual And Gender Discrimination By Sheryl Kara Sandberg

Sexual and gender discrimination is still present in the United States and other developed countries. Women often earn less, have more trouble obtaining high-level positions, and are threatened and harassed much more regularly than their male peers, and it needs to be brought to an end. Sheryl Kara Sandberg is an American technology executive, activist, and author, and as of September 2014, she is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. As Sandberg discusses in her book, Lean In : Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, â€Å"Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few. If women held 50 percent of the top jobs, it would just not be possible to dislike that many people† (32). If people were not so indifferent towards the idea of women pursuing positions of authority, we would have fewer men making decisions for women, decisions on issues that they do not fully understand because they have not had to experience these issues from a woman’s perspective. Examples of women’s issues that need to be taken into consideration include their education offerings and pay compared to men’s. It is quite often that men will overlook these issue because they do not have to struggle with them firsthand. Conversely, there are women who believe they don’t need feminism. Often enough though, this is because these women do not understand the true meaning of feminism and associate it with being victimized and man-hating.