Feminism - a word we don't hear as much these days as when I was young in the 60s. But it has reared it's head of late with the new book, Lean In, by Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook. Apparently, we haven't come a long way, baby. According to Sandberg, women are still content to sit on the sidelines. It's a sad heart breaker.
Sandberg mentions that successful men are well-liked and successful women aren't. This was true 50 years ago and it's still true today. What else is new? And will it ever change? Perhaps, but the two generations I thought it would take to see real change at the level of middle class America will probably become four generations, which puts the end result after my time.
Kudos to those women in my lifetime who have broken the glass ceiling, setting a terrific example for young women on the rise: Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Hillary Clinton, Sandra Day O'Connor, Condoleeza Rice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Madeleine Albright, among many others. Hillary, I sure hope you run!
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