Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer of Facebook and is ranked on Fortune's list of the 50 most powerful women in business and as one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world. Sandberg chooses Lean In to examine why women's progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled. It provides deep insight into the root causes, while offering compelling, common-sense solutions that can empower women to reach their full potential. While this book by Facebook's COO is ostensibly about women in the workplace, it's actually about unconscious cognitive biases. The majority of Americans may consider women and men equal on the surface, but the fact that women still significantly lag behind men in both pay and leadership positions points to the fact that something else is going on. they are young, middle-class working women. The following quote about the book is the main selling point of this book. "When a girl tries to lead, she is often labeled a bully. Boys are rarely called bullies because a boy takes the lead ...