The purpose of this article was to inform and persuade the general public about the criticism between genders in the media. She emphasizes the issue of women have difficulty achieving equity in leadership positions. This regards to cultural obstacles and harmful stereotypes that discourage women and girls to successfully achieve powerful positions in their field. Despite the numerous advancements created for women’s rights in the past, she portrays the media as being sexist when it comes to women in power. Her target audience, however, revolves around people who are in politics, activists, writers, public officials, because those are the people that can make change happen. The problem with the article is that focuses more on who is getting interviewed, then what the interviewer is saying.
The lack of examples does not provide context for the situation of sexism in the media. The reader does not get a complete understanding of the article because there isn't any backbone to what Sheryl Sandberg had said “ As a woman gets more successful, she is less liked by the people of both genders, and as a man gets more successful, he does not take likability hit”. The issue with this statement is there’s no way to measure being liked in the real world. Without that information Not only is