{"id":33840,"date":"2013-03-19T00:43:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T22:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=33840"},"modified":"2013-03-19T08:59:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T06:59:54","slug":"female-voices-arent-equally-heard-facebook-coo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/33840\/female-voices-arent-equally-heard-facebook-coo\/","title":{"rendered":"Female voices aren\u2019t equally heard: Facebook COO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sheryl Sandberg\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2169-Sheryl-Sandberg\">Sheryl Sandberg<\/a>, chief operating officer of social network <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1710-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a>, believes that relative to men, women\u2019s voices aren\u2019t equally heard.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Reuters TV, Sandberg noted that the proportionately low numbers of women in the tech sector was as a result of low levels of women taking computer science degrees due to perpetuated stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p>Sandberg was talking about her new book: <em>Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead<\/em>.<br \/>\n\u201cWomen have had 14% of the executive roles in corporate America (in) 10 years, we are at 17% of board seats\u2026those numbers have gone up 3% over the last 10 years &#8211; so, stagnation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there are a lot of things holding women back. Were held back by institutional barriers, by sexism by discrimination, by a terrible public policy, but we are also held back by things within ourselves\u2026the stereotypes we grow up with,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jtwgVcalx1A\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sandberg said that women in positions of authority set a better example for how to manage their work\/life balance. \u201cData says that companies who have more women in senior management roles, have better work life policies for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe relative to men, our (women) voices aren\u2019t equally heard. We are not at the tables where decisions are being made\u2026women are getting interrupted more, and women are getting paid 77 cents to the dollar, and none of that is ok,\u201d Sandberg said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust as the world doesn\u2019t encourage women to lead, the world doesn\u2019t encourage men to nurture,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Sandberg opined that Silicon Valley is more meritocratic than so many other industries, \u201cbut there are these gender biases that all of us have, all of us are looking through those lenses, and they are hurting women\u2026 we need to talk about it, admit they are there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Privilege<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number book reviews point out Sandberg\u2019s position of privilege in order to get where she currently is.<\/p>\n<p>The COO received $30.9 million in total compensation in 2011, making her the best-paid senior executive at Facebook. Sandberg received $381,966 in salary and bonus that year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do understand that I have circumstances and resources that other people don\u2019t have. I really understand that, I am very clear about it. I don\u2019t believe every woman can do everything I can do, nor should they. Also I don\u2019t believe I have this success formula for everyone,\u201d Sandberg stressed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women in tech<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sandberg said that women are not in the tech sector in proportionate numbers because technology companies are almost always started by technologists, people who have computer science degrees. \u201cWe have a crisis for computer science and women in this country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe same stereotype that holds woman back from leadership holds women back from being in computer science. In the 1980\u2019s women were about 35% of computer scientists in this country (US).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are down to below 20%&#8230;we are perpetuating this stereotype, and if we want to see women founding tech companies, we can\u2019t be 15% of women in computer science degrees,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More news on women in tech<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Facebook COO sells US$7.4 million in stock\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/international\/25768\/facebook-coo-sells-us7-4-million-in-stock\/\"><strong>Facebook COO sells US$7.4 million in stock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Facebook COO elected first female on board\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/16447\/facebook-coo-elected-first-female-on-board\/\"><strong>Facebook COO elected first female on board<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Women step up in the video game industry\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/29728\/women-step-up-in-the-video-game-industry\/\"><strong>Women step up in the video game industry<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook believes that relative to men, women\u2019s voices aren\u2019t equally heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[5406,45,26,5404,1353,927,5405],"class_list":["post-33840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-and-the-will-to-lead","tag-facebook","tag-headline","tag-lean-in-women","tag-sheryl-sandberg","tag-silicon-valley","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33840"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33849,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33840\/revisions\/33849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}