Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO attributes the lack of equality in the workplace to women's lack of ambition.
“Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not going to achieve as much as men.” – Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook
This is such an unfair representation. Are there women who don't have ambition? of course! the same way that there are men with no ambition. But to characterize the inequality and injustice that women face in the workplace as our own fault, is going a little to far.
Let's see...
- We go to work knowing that we will have to work harder than men to even be noticed
- Knowing we will be paid less than a man to do similar jobs.
- Knowing that we will see other people be promoted continuosly with no achievement over us other than having the right gender.
- Knowing that for every sign of leadership and courage - any attribute celebrated in men - we will be labeled "a B".
- Knowing that there is a glass ceiling that apparently can only be broken if we have the right mentor.
- Knowing that we will juggle all this while being moms, wives, daughters and keeping our households running.
If this is not a sign of ambition, frankly I don't know what is. Anyone that manages to work and succeed under this circumstances has nothing BUT ambition!
