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Lean In for Graduates is out now! In addition to the full text of the original book, the new edition includes a letter from Sheryl urging graduates to aim high and new chapters with expert advice on choosing your path, finding a job, and negotiating...

Lean In for Graduates is out now! 

In addition to the full text of the original book, the new edition includes a letter from Sheryl urging graduates to aim high and new chapters with expert advice on choosing your path, finding a job, and negotiating your first salary. It also includes chapters encouraging millennial men to work toward gender equality and women of color to own who they are, as well as stories from young people who overcame obstacles to lean in to their lives.

Learn more at leanin.org/grads.

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Apr 09, 2014
Trailblazing Women You May Not Know (But Should): Civil Rights Pioneer Claudette Colvin Each week, the Lean In tumblr will spotlight women who made a lasting mark on the world – yet didn’t end up in the history books. This week we celebrate Claudette...

Trailblazing Women You May Not Know (But Should): Civil Rights Pioneer Claudette Colvin

Each week, the Lean In tumblr will spotlight women who made a lasting mark on the world – yet didn’t end up in the history books. This week we celebrate Claudette Colvin, the first African American woman to refuse to move to the back of a bus, nine months before Rosa Parks.

Colvin was a 15-year-old student when she took a seat for justice on the very same bus system as Parks did in Montgomery, Alabama.  On March 2, 1955, Colvin refused to get up for a white person – defiantly announcing that she had “paid my fare.” But police didn’t care. “They knocked my books out of my lap, grabbed both my arms, dragged me, and handcuffed me,” she wrote in her biography. “I kept screaming over and over, ‘This is my constitutional right!’" 

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his political debut fighting Colvin’s arrest, and Colvin was the star witness in the case that eventually forced bus desegregation. And yet the NAACP decided she wasn’t ”the right face for the battle.“ Colvin was seen as unruly and difficult to control, and she was pregnant by a married man. Parks, determined the NAACP, was a safer bet. 

Now 74, Colvin is retired and lives in the Bronx. As she put it 2009: "I knew then and I know now that when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.’ And I did.”

(Image via Biography.com)

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Oct 30, 2013
Sara Kurovski, 28, leaned in and ran for mayor of her small town. What would you do if YOU weren’t afraid? “ “I am running for Mayor in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, which is a suburb of the capital of Iowa - Des Moines. If I get elected, I will be the first...

Sara Kurovski, 28, leaned in and ran for mayor of her small town. What would you do if YOU weren’t afraid?

“I am running for Mayor in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, which is a suburb of the capital of Iowa - Des Moines. If I get elected, I will be the first female mayor for Pleasant Hill. It has been interesting, the top two questions I get are: ‘Is your husband OK with you running?’ and ‘Do you have thick enough skin?’ No one would ever ask a man either of those questions. But I have been finding overwhelming support.”

—Sara Kurovski, Pleasant Hill, Iowa. 

READ SARA’S AMAZING STORY

(Source: ifuwerentafraid)

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Oct 11, 2013
changetheratio: “ Sheryl reminding the audience that they are allowed to be happy - that models of women who “have it all” are rarely presented as happy. (These are great, real questions - “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” is a powerful...

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Sheryl reminding the audience that they are allowed to be happy - that models of women who “have it all” are rarely presented as happy. (These are great, real questions - “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” is a powerful conversation-starter.) (at MetLife Building)

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Sep 23, 2013
Gender pay gap: Male bonuses twice as big as women's

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Gender pay gap: Male bonuses twice as big as women's

New research has uncovered a shocking gender pay gap, with male managers earning average bonuses twice as big as female counterparts.
Male managers were paid an average bonus of £6,442 last year compared with £3,029 for women, on top of basic salaries almost 25% bigger.

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Sep 01, 2013
An Irish Pub’s Toast to Women (New York Times) “ “I’m trying to celebrate the feminine side, and I look around and it’s all guys,” he said. Soon enough, Mr. McDonald hit upon a way to address that imbalance. Grace, a bar and restaurant that he hopes...

An Irish Pub’s Toast to Women (New York Times)

“I’m trying to celebrate the feminine side, and I look around and it’s all guys,” he said. Soon enough, Mr. McDonald hit upon a way to address that imbalance. Grace, a bar and restaurant that he hopes to open in Midtown East by the end of this month, will have a cocktail program created entirely by female mixologists.

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Aug 24, 2013
Sandberg’s Lean In Circles: 7,000 Plus and Growing (ABC News) “ It’s been nearly five months since Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In,” a manifesto for working women, was published, shooting to the top of best-seller lists with its mix of...

Sandberg’s Lean In Circles: 7,000 Plus and Growing (ABC News)

It’s been nearly five months since Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In,” a manifesto for working women, was published, shooting to the top of best-seller lists with its mix of practical advice, pep talks, research and amusing anecdotes from one of the most successful businesswomen in the world.

On top of that, five months after the book urged women to form “Lean In” empowerment circles, some 7,000 of those circles have been formed, the foundation announced — in all 50 states and at least 50 countries. And that’s only counting groups that have registered.

“The name refers to a whale who feels no one can hear it,” Falcon says. “But we found each other. It’s really helpful to compare strategies, to talk about handling pressure. The good thing is, no matter how old you are, no matter where you live, you can relate to women everywhere.”

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Aug 14, 2013

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