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Backlash to Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Reveals Class Envy, Enmity

Jealousy an ugly thing

Reason Staff | 3.14.2013 8:36 AM

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Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" venture is being rightly attacked for all the wrong reasons. She's been drubbed for being too privileged and too powerful. What could a Harvard MBA who hopped from the World Bank to Google to Facebook's COO know about the lives of "real" women?

So much of the flap -- pro and con -- over Sandberg's attempt to jump-start a women's revolution has less to do with the attempt than with resentment over her class status.

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