Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Ask most women whether they have the right to equality at work and the answer will be a resounding yes, but ask the same women whether they'd feel confident asking for a raise, a promotion, or equal pay, and some reticence creeps in.

The statistics, although an improvement on previous decades, are certainly not in women's favour – of 197 heads of state, only twenty-two are women. Women hold just 20 percent of seats in parliaments globally, and in the world of big business, a meagre eighteen of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women.

In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg – Facebook COO and one of Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women in Business – looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale. She draws on her own experiences working in some of the world's most successful businesses, as well as academic research, to find practical answers to the problems facing women in the workplace.

Learning to 'lean in' is about tackling the anxieties and preconceptions that stop women reaching the top – taking a place at the table, and making yourself a part of the debate.

美國的克諾夫出版集團(Alfred A. Knopf)20日表示，全球最大社群網站臉書(Facebook)女營運長桑德柏格(Sheryl Sandberg)的新書，發行首週就熱賣了14萬本，並名列亞馬遜網站(Amazon.com)暢銷書榜首。

桑德柏格的新書「柔軟：女性、工作、領導的意願」(Lean In：Women，Work，and the Will to Lead，暫譯)在3月11日上市，目前已印行了40萬本。

這本提倡女權的新書上市後不但雄踞亞馬遜熱銷書榜首，也是紐約時報將在31日出刊的非小說類精裝書及電子書銷售名單第一名。而在邦諾(Barnes & Noble)及其他獨立書商的銷售榜中，桑德柏格的新書也是熱賣長紅。

桑德柏格說，這本新書是為了提供女性所需工具和指導，幫助她們在職場持續向前邁進，而書中也呼籲男性在家中和職場給予女性支持。

「柔軟：女性、工作、領導的意願」與桑德柏格新創立的網站LeanIn.org同步推出，新書收益將全數撥給非營利的LeanIn.org。

43歲的桑德柏格自2008年起成為臉書的第二號主管人物，當時臉書執行長祖克柏(Mark Zuckerberg)將桑德柏格從谷歌(Google)挖角過來，協助臉書營運。桑德柏格說，她是這幾年來才開始認真思考影響職場女性的議題，3年前她根本不會說出「職場女性」這幾個字。

(中央社新聞)