Lean In Sandberg Analysis

1. The overall negative assessment Bell Hooks had on Sheryl Sandberg’s book, “Lean In,” was that Sandberg addresses women’s hesitation to be ambitious leaders as a feminist issue without full regard to all of women. Hooks argues that Sandberg ignorantly blames women for their lack of determination to pursue leadership because of her position and power as a conservative white female elite. According to Hooks, Sandberg doesn’t recognize other poor or different colored women’s concerns in her position as an elitist. Sandberg advocates for females, yet doesn’t realize the systemic inequality when it is mostly just the white-privileged women who have a greater connection with powerful men in the world.
The overall positive assessment Bell Hooks