WEBVTT 00:00:00.598 --> 00:00:03.271 Pat Mitchell: Your first time back on the TEDWomen stage. NOTE Paragraph 00:00:03.271 --> 00:00:06.214 Sheryl Sandberg: First time back. Nice to see everyone. It's always so nice to look out 00:00:06.214 --> 00:00:08.132 and see so many women. 00:00:08.132 --> 00:00:13.262 It's so not my regular experience, as I know anyone else's. NOTE Paragraph 00:00:13.262 --> 00:00:18.654 PM: So when we first started talking about, maybe the subject wouldn't be social media, 00:00:18.654 --> 00:00:23.310 which we assumed it would be, but that you had very much on your mind 00:00:23.310 --> 00:00:30.464 the missing leadership positions, particularly in the sector of technology and social media. 00:00:30.464 --> 00:00:37.238 But how did that evolve for you as a thought, and end up being the TED Talk that you gave? NOTE Paragraph 00:00:37.238 --> 00:00:39.809 SS: So I was really scared to get on this stage and talk about women, 00:00:39.809 --> 00:00:43.461 because I grew up in the business world, as I think so many of us did. 00:00:43.461 --> 00:00:49.793 You never talk about being a woman, because someone might notice that you're a woman, right? 00:00:49.793 --> 00:00:53.953 They might notice. Or worse, if you say "woman," people on the other end of the table 00:00:53.953 --> 00:00:57.043 think you're asking for special treatment, or complaining. 00:00:57.043 --> 00:01:00.751 Or worse, about to sue them. And so I went through -- (Laughter) 00:01:00.751 --> 00:01:02.929 Right? I went through my entire business career, 00:01:02.929 --> 00:01:06.557 and never spoke about being a woman, never spoke about it publicly. 00:01:06.557 --> 00:01:09.460 But I also had noticed that it wasn't working. NOTE Paragraph 00:01:09.460 --> 00:01:12.899 I came out of college over 20 years ago, and I thought 00:01:12.899 --> 00:01:16.798 that all of my peers were men and women, all the people above me were all men, 00:01:16.798 --> 00:01:17.896 but that would change, 00:01:17.896 --> 00:01:22.429 because your generation had done such an amazing job fighting for equality, 00:01:22.429 --> 00:01:26.041 equality was now ours for the taking. And it wasn't. 00:01:26.041 --> 00:01:29.376 Because year after year, I was one of fewer and fewer, 00:01:29.376 --> 00:01:31.328 and now, often the only woman in a room. 00:01:31.328 --> 00:01:33.418 And I talked to a bunch of people about, 00:01:33.418 --> 00:01:36.839 should I give a speech at TEDWomen about women, and they said, oh no, no. 00:01:36.839 --> 00:01:42.033 It will end your business career. You cannot be a serious business executive 00:01:42.033 --> 00:01:45.471 and speak about being a woman. You'll never be taken seriously again. NOTE Paragraph 00:01:45.471 --> 00:01:50.346 But fortunately, there were the few, the proud -- like you -- who told me I should give the speech, 00:01:50.346 --> 00:01:53.002 and I asked myself the question Mark Zuckerberg might -- 00:01:53.002 --> 00:01:54.840 the founder of Facebook and my boss -- 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:59.419 asks all of us, which is, what would I do if I wasn't afraid? 00:01:59.419 --> 00:02:03.227 And the answer to what would I do if I wasn't afraid is I would get on the TED stage, 00:02:03.241 --> 00:02:10.746 and talk about women, and leadership. And I did, and survived. (Applause) NOTE Paragraph 00:02:10.746 --> 00:02:14.581 PM: I would say, not only survived. I'm thinking of that moment, Sheryl, 00:02:14.581 --> 00:02:18.914 when you and I were standing backstage together, and you turned to me, 00:02:18.914 --> 00:02:20.652 and you told me a story. 00:02:20.652 --> 00:02:24.531 And I said -- very last minute -- you know, you really should share that story. NOTE Paragraph 00:02:24.531 --> 00:02:26.281 SS: Oh, yeah. PM: What was that story? NOTE Paragraph 00:02:26.281 --> 00:02:29.546 SS: Well, it's an important part of the journey. So I had -- TEDWomen -- 00:02:29.546 --> 00:02:33.355 the original one was in D.C. -- so I live here, so I had gotten on a plane the day before, 00:02:33.355 --> 00:02:38.404 and my daughter was three, she was clinging to my leg: "Mommy, don't go." 00:02:38.404 --> 00:02:42.137 And Pat's a friend, and so, not related to the speech I was planning on giving, 00:02:42.137 --> 00:02:46.599 which was chock full of facts and figures, and nothing personal, 00:02:46.599 --> 00:02:48.865 I told Pat the story. I said, well, I'm having a hard day. 00:02:48.865 --> 00:02:51.469 Yesterday my daughter was clinging to my leg, and "Don't go." NOTE Paragraph 00:02:51.469 --> 00:02:53.213 And you looked at me and said, you have to tell that story. 00:02:53.213 --> 00:02:57.448 I said, on the TED stage? Are you kidding? 00:02:57.448 --> 00:02:59.905 I'm going to get on a stage and admit my daughter was clinging to my leg? 00:02:59.905 --> 00:03:04.072 And you said yes, because if you want to talk about getting more women into leadership roles, 00:03:04.072 --> 00:03:07.209 you have to be honest about how hard it is. 00:03:07.209 --> 00:03:11.945 And I did. And I think that's a really important part of the journey. NOTE Paragraph 00:03:11.945 --> 00:03:17.243 The same thing happened when I wrote my book. I started writing the book. I wrote a first chapter, 00:03:17.243 --> 00:03:21.209 I thought it was fabulous. It was chock-full of data and figures, 00:03:21.209 --> 00:03:29.069 I had three pages on matrilineal Maasai tribes, and their sociological patterns. 00:03:29.069 --> 00:03:34.132 My husband read it and he was like, this is like eating your Wheaties. (Laughter) 00:03:34.132 --> 00:03:41.497 No one -- and I apologize to Wheaties if there's someone -- no one, no one will read this book. 00:03:41.497 --> 00:03:45.682 And I realized through the process that I had to be more honest and more open, 00:03:45.682 --> 00:03:50.428 and I had to tell my stories. My stories of still not feeling as self-confident as I should, 00:03:50.428 --> 00:03:56.647 in many situations. My first and failed marriage. Crying at work. 00:03:56.647 --> 00:04:00.319 Felling like I didn't belong there, feeling guilty to this day. 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:04.714 And part of my journey, starting on this stage, going to "Lean In," going to the foundation, 00:04:04.714 --> 00:04:08.602 is all about being more open and honest about those challenges, 00:04:08.602 --> 00:04:10.610 so that other women can be more open and honest, 00:04:10.610 --> 00:04:14.242 and all of us can work together towards real equality. NOTE Paragraph 00:04:14.242 --> 00:04:17.584 PM: I think that one of the most striking parts about the book, 00:04:17.584 --> 00:04:23.449 and in my opinion, one of the reasons it's hit such a nerve and is resonating around the world, 00:04:23.449 --> 00:04:29.234 is that you are personal in the book, and that you do make it clear that, 00:04:29.234 --> 00:04:33.392 while you've observed some things that are very important for other women to know, 00:04:33.392 --> 00:04:37.951 that you've had the same challenges that many others of us have, 00:04:37.951 --> 00:04:44.746 as you faced the hurdles and the barriers and possibly the people who don't believe the same. 00:04:44.746 --> 00:04:49.384 So talk about that process: deciding you'd go public with the private part, 00:04:49.384 --> 00:04:53.101 and then you would also put yourself in the position of something of an expert 00:04:53.101 --> 00:04:56.542 on how to resolve those challenges. NOTE Paragraph 00:04:56.542 --> 00:04:58.726 SS: After I did the TED Talk, what happened was -- 00:04:58.726 --> 00:05:02.474 you know, I never really expected to write a book, I'm not an author, I'm not a writer, 00:05:02.474 --> 00:05:07.143 and it was viewed a lot, and it really started impacting people's lives. 00:05:07.143 --> 00:05:10.663 I got this great --- one of the first letters I got was from a woman 00:05:10.663 --> 00:05:15.789 who said that she was offered a really big promotion at work, and she turned it down, 00:05:15.789 --> 00:05:18.142 and she told her best friend she turned it down, and her best friend said, 00:05:18.142 --> 00:05:19.975 you really need to watch this TED Talk. 00:05:19.975 --> 00:05:24.391 And so she watched this TED Talk, and she went back the next day, she took the job, 00:05:24.391 --> 00:05:29.239 she went home, and she handed her husband the grocery list. (Laughter) 00:05:29.239 --> 00:05:30.831 And she said, I can do this. NOTE Paragraph 00:05:30.831 --> 00:05:33.984 And what really mattered to me -- it wasn't only women in the corporate world, 00:05:33.984 --> 00:05:36.954 even though I did hear from a lot of them, and it did impact a lot of them, 00:05:36.954 --> 00:05:40.784 it was also people of all different circumstances. 00:05:40.784 --> 00:05:44.531 There was a doctor I met who was an attending physician at Johns Hopkins, 00:05:44.531 --> 00:05:48.124 and he said that until he saw my TED Talk, it never really occurred to him 00:05:48.124 --> 00:05:50.498 that even though half the students in his med school classes were women, 00:05:50.498 --> 00:05:53.409 they weren't speaking as much as the men as he did his rounds. 00:05:53.409 --> 00:05:59.635 So he started paying attention, and as he waited for raised hands, he realized the men's hands were up. 00:05:59.635 --> 00:06:01.920 So he started encouraging the women to raise their hands more, 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:03.197 and it still didn't work. 00:06:03.197 --> 00:06:06.751 So he told everyone, no more hand raising, I'm cold-calling. 00:06:06.751 --> 00:06:10.955 So he could call evenly on men and women. And what he proved to himself was that 00:06:10.955 --> 00:06:13.588 the women knew the answers just as well or better, 00:06:13.588 --> 00:06:15.476 and he was able to go back to them and tell them that. 00:06:15.476 --> 00:06:20.595 And then there was the woman, stay-at-home mom, lives in a really difficult neighborhood, 00:06:20.595 --> 00:06:24.631 with not a great school, she said that TED Talk -- she's never had a corporate job, 00:06:24.631 --> 00:06:30.406 but that TED Talk inspired her to go to her school and fight for a better teacher for her child. 00:06:30.406 --> 00:06:34.698 And I guess it was part of was finding my own voice. 00:06:34.698 --> 00:06:38.752 And I realized that other women and men could find their voice through it, 00:06:38.752 --> 00:06:41.474 which is why I went from the talk to the book. NOTE Paragraph 00:06:41.474 --> 00:06:47.799 PM: And in the book, you not only found your voice, which is clear and strong in the book, 00:06:47.799 --> 00:06:51.363 but you also share what you've learned -- 00:06:51.363 --> 00:06:54.506 the experiences of other people in the lessons. 00:06:54.506 --> 00:06:58.688 And that's what I'm thinking about in terms of putting yourself in a -- 00:06:58.688 --> 00:07:03.642 you became a sort of expert in how you lean in. 00:07:03.642 --> 00:07:08.034 So what did that feel like, and become like in your life? 00:07:08.034 --> 00:07:14.246 To launch not just a book, not just a best-selling, best-viewed talk, 00:07:14.246 --> 00:07:20.090 but a movement, where people began to literally describe their actions at work as, 00:07:20.090 --> 00:07:22.772 I'm leaning in. NOTE Paragraph 00:07:22.772 --> 00:07:29.986 SS: I mean, I'm grateful, I'm honored, I'm happy, and it's the very beginning. 00:07:29.986 --> 00:07:34.500 So I don't know if I'm an expert, or if anyone is an expert. I certainly have done a lot of research. 00:07:34.500 --> 00:07:37.713 I have read every study, I have pored over the materials, 00:07:37.713 --> 00:07:41.341 and the lessons are very clear. Because here's what we know: 00:07:41.341 --> 00:07:46.053 What we know is that stereotypes are holding women back from leadership roles all over the world. 00:07:46.053 --> 00:07:48.656 It's so striking. "Lean In" is very global, I've been all over the world, 00:07:48.656 --> 00:07:51.051 talking about it, and -- cultures are so different. 00:07:51.051 --> 00:07:56.044 Even within our own country, to Japan, to Korea, to China, to Asia, Europe, 00:07:56.044 --> 00:08:00.231 they're so different. Except for one thing: gender. 00:08:00.231 --> 00:08:02.151 All over the world, no matter what our cultures are, 00:08:02.151 --> 00:08:06.481 we think men should be strong, assertive, aggressive, have voice; 00:08:06.481 --> 00:08:10.998 we think women should speak when spoken to, help others. NOTE Paragraph 00:08:10.998 --> 00:08:14.703 Now we have, all over the world, 00:08:14.703 --> 00:08:18.496 women are called "bossy." There is a word for "bossy," 00:08:18.496 --> 00:08:20.814 for little girls, in every language there's one. 00:08:20.814 --> 00:08:23.024 It's a word that's pretty much not used for little boys, 00:08:23.024 --> 00:08:25.952 because if a little boy leads, there's no negative word for it, 00:08:25.952 --> 00:08:30.741 it's expected. But if a little girl leads, she's bossy. NOTE Paragraph 00:08:30.741 --> 00:08:32.736 Now I know there aren't a lot of men here, but bear with me. 00:08:32.736 --> 00:08:35.270 If you're a man, you'll have to represent your gender. 00:08:35.270 --> 00:08:40.834 Please raise your hand if you've been told you're too aggressive at work. 00:08:40.834 --> 00:08:46.718 (Laughter) There's always a few, it runs about five percent. Okay, get ready, gentlemen. 00:08:46.718 --> 00:08:53.281 If you're a woman, please raise your hand if you've ever been told you're too aggressive at work. 00:08:53.281 --> 00:08:56.894 (Laughter) That is what audiences have said in every country in the world, 00:08:56.894 --> 00:08:59.760 and it's deeply supported by the data. NOTE Paragraph 00:08:59.760 --> 00:09:04.099 Now, do we think women are more aggressive than men? Of course not. 00:09:04.099 --> 00:09:06.449 It's just that we judge them through a different lens, 00:09:06.449 --> 00:09:11.300 and a lot of the character traits that you must exhibit to perform at work, to get results, to lead, 00:09:11.300 --> 00:09:14.164 are ones that we think, in a man, he's a boss, 00:09:14.164 --> 00:09:15.786 and in a woman, she's bossy. 00:09:15.786 --> 00:09:19.872 And the good news about this is that we can change this by acknowledging it. NOTE Paragraph 00:09:19.872 --> 00:09:22.262 One of the happiest moments I had in this whole journey is, 00:09:22.262 --> 00:09:27.195 after the book came out, I stood on a stage with John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco. 00:09:27.195 --> 00:09:30.854 He read the book. He stood on a stage with me, he invited me in front of his whole management team, 00:09:30.854 --> 00:09:34.246 men and women, and he said, I thought we were good at this. I thought I was good at this. 00:09:34.246 --> 00:09:39.312 And then I read this book, and I realized that we -- my company -- 00:09:39.312 --> 00:09:41.296 we have called all of our senior women too aggressive, 00:09:41.296 --> 00:09:43.745 and I'm standing on this stage, and I'm sorry. 00:09:43.745 --> 00:09:47.490 And I want you to know we're never going to do it again. NOTE Paragraph 00:09:47.490 --> 00:09:50.874 PM: Can we send that to a lot of other people that we know? (Applause) NOTE Paragraph 00:09:50.874 --> 00:09:54.775 SS: And so John is doing that because he believes it's good for his company, 00:09:54.775 --> 00:09:57.813 and so this kind of acknowledgement of these biases can change it. 00:09:57.829 --> 00:10:01.477 And so next time you all see someone call a little girl "bossy," 00:10:01.477 --> 00:10:04.025 you walk right up to that person, big smile, and you say, 00:10:04.025 --> 00:10:10.560 "That little girl's not bossy. That little girl has executive leadership skills." (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:10:10.560 --> 00:10:13.765 PM: I know that's what you're telling your daughter. SS: Absolutely. NOTE Paragraph 00:10:13.765 --> 00:10:16.834 PM: And you did focus in the book -- and the reason, as you said, in writing it, 00:10:16.834 --> 00:10:18.759 was to create a dialogue about this. 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:22.273 I mean, let's just put it out there, face the fact that women are -- 00:10:22.273 --> 00:10:25.948 in a time when we have more open doors, and more opportunities -- 00:10:25.948 --> 00:10:29.248 are still not getting to the leadership positions. 00:10:29.248 --> 00:10:31.446 So in the months that have come since the book, 00:10:31.446 --> 00:10:34.004 in which "Lean In" focused on that and said, 00:10:34.004 --> 00:10:38.304 here are some of the challenges that remain, and many of them we have to own within ourselves 00:10:38.304 --> 00:10:41.066 and look at ourselves. What has changed? 00:10:41.066 --> 00:10:43.152 Have you seen changes? NOTE Paragraph 00:10:43.152 --> 00:10:45.415 SS: Well, there's certainly more dialogue, which is great. 00:10:45.415 --> 00:10:48.463 But what really matters to me, and I think all of us, is action. 00:10:48.463 --> 00:10:52.247 So everywhere I go, CEOs, they're mostly men, say to me, 00:10:52.247 --> 00:10:54.866 you're costing me so much money 00:10:54.866 --> 00:10:58.038 because all the women want to be paid as much as the men. 00:10:58.038 --> 00:11:02.319 And to them I say, I'm not sorry at all. (Laughter) 00:11:02.319 --> 00:11:05.557 At all. I mean, the women should be paid as much as the men. NOTE Paragraph 00:11:05.557 --> 00:11:08.694 Everywhere I go, women tell me they ask for raises. 00:11:08.694 --> 00:11:12.691 Everywhere I go, women say they're getting better relationships with their spouses, 00:11:12.691 --> 00:11:16.671 asking for more help at home, asking for the promotions they should be getting at work, 00:11:16.671 --> 00:11:19.669 and importantly, believing it themselves. Even little things. 00:11:19.669 --> 00:11:23.701 One of the governors of one of the states told me that he didn't realize that more women were, in fact, 00:11:23.701 --> 00:11:25.930 literally sitting on the side of the room, which they are, 00:11:25.930 --> 00:11:31.417 and now he made a rule that all the women on his staff need to sit at the table. NOTE Paragraph 00:11:31.417 --> 00:11:33.573 The foundation I started along with the book "Lean In" 00:11:33.573 --> 00:11:36.925 helps women, or men, start circles -- small groups, 00:11:36.925 --> 00:11:40.174 it can be 10, it can be however many you want, which meet once a month. 00:11:40.174 --> 00:11:43.495 I would have hoped that by now, we'd have about 500 circles. That would've been great. 00:11:43.495 --> 00:11:46.417 You know, 500 times roughly 10. 00:11:46.417 --> 00:11:49.647 There are over 12,000 circles in 50 countries in the world. NOTE Paragraph 00:11:49.647 --> 00:11:51.207 PM: Wow, that's amazing. NOTE Paragraph 00:11:51.207 --> 00:11:54.282 SS: And these are people who are meeting every single month. 00:11:54.282 --> 00:11:56.621 I met one of them, I was in Beijing. 00:11:56.621 --> 00:12:01.321 A group of women, they're all about 29 or 30, they started the first Lean In circle in Beijing, 00:12:01.321 --> 00:12:05.314 several of them grew up in very poor, rural China. 00:12:05.314 --> 00:12:11.122 These women are 29, they are told by their society that they are "left over," 00:12:11.122 --> 00:12:13.135 because they are not yet married, 00:12:13.135 --> 00:12:15.918 and the process of coming together once a month at a meeting 00:12:15.918 --> 00:12:19.218 is helping them define who they are for themselves. 00:12:19.218 --> 00:12:23.554 What they want in their careers. The kind of partners they want, if at all. 00:12:23.554 --> 00:12:25.541 I looked at them, we went around and introduced ourselves, 00:12:25.541 --> 00:12:27.380 and they all said their names and where they're from, 00:12:27.380 --> 00:12:30.860 and I said, I'm Sheryl Sandberg, and this was my dream. 00:12:30.860 --> 00:12:32.700 And I kind of just started crying. 00:12:32.700 --> 00:12:37.457 Right, which, I admit, I do. Right? I've talked about it before. 00:12:37.457 --> 00:12:42.027 But the fact that a woman so far away out in the world, who grew up in a rural village, 00:12:42.027 --> 00:12:46.138 who's being told to marry someone she doesn't want to marry, 00:12:46.138 --> 00:12:49.075 can now go meet once a month with a group of people and refuse that, 00:12:49.075 --> 00:12:52.069 and find life on her own terms. 00:12:52.069 --> 00:12:54.012 That's the kind of change we have to hope for. NOTE Paragraph 00:12:54.012 --> 00:12:57.559 PM: Have you been surprised by the global nature of the message? 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:00.864 Because I think when the book first came out, many people thought, 00:13:00.864 --> 00:13:04.616 well, this is a really important handbook for young women on their way up. 00:13:04.616 --> 00:13:08.930 They need to look at this, anticipate the barriers, and recognize them, 00:13:08.930 --> 00:13:11.580 put them out in the open, have the dialogue about it, 00:13:11.580 --> 00:13:16.699 but that it's really for women who are that. Doing that. Pursuing the corporate world. 00:13:16.699 --> 00:13:21.077 And yet the book is being read, as you say, in rural and developing countries. 00:13:21.082 --> 00:13:28.359 What part of that has surprised you, and perhaps led to a new perspective on your part? NOTE Paragraph 00:13:28.359 --> 00:13:31.515 SS: The book is about self-confidence, and about equality. 00:13:31.515 --> 00:13:35.415 And it turns out, everywhere in the world, women need more self-confidence, 00:13:35.415 --> 00:13:37.636 because the world tells us we're not equal to men. 00:13:37.636 --> 00:13:41.049 Everywhere in the world, we live in a world where the men get "and," 00:13:41.049 --> 00:13:42.360 and women get "or." 00:13:42.360 --> 00:13:46.034 I've never met a man who's been asked how he does it all. (Laughter) NOTE Paragraph 00:13:46.034 --> 00:13:49.247 Again, I'm going to turn to the men in the audience: 00:13:49.247 --> 00:13:52.279 Please raise your hand if you've been asked, how do you do it all? 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:53.728 (Laughter) 00:13:53.728 --> 00:13:55.159 Men only. 00:13:55.159 --> 00:14:00.037 Women, women. Please raise your hand if you've been asked how you do it all? 00:14:00.037 --> 00:14:06.396 We assume men can do it all, slash -- have jobs and children. 00:14:06.396 --> 00:14:08.174 We assume women can't, and that's ridiculous, 00:14:08.174 --> 00:14:11.750 because the great majority of women everywhere in the world, including the United States, 00:14:11.750 --> 00:14:14.046 work full time and have children. NOTE Paragraph 00:14:14.046 --> 00:14:19.218 And I think people don't fully understand how broad the message is. 00:14:19.218 --> 00:14:23.580 There is a circle that's been started for rescued sex workers in Miami. 00:14:23.580 --> 00:14:28.931 They're using "Lean In" to help people make the transition 00:14:28.931 --> 00:14:33.672 back to what would be a fair life, really rescuing them from their pimps, and using it. 00:14:33.672 --> 00:14:37.421 There are dress-for-success groups in Texas which are using the book, 00:14:37.421 --> 00:14:39.080 for women who have never been to college. 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:43.008 And we know there are groups all the way to Ethiopia. 00:14:43.008 --> 00:14:48.891 And so these messages of equality -- of how women are told they can't have what men can have -- 00:14:48.891 --> 00:14:53.124 how we assume that leadership is for men, how we assume that voice is for men, 00:14:53.124 --> 00:14:56.262 these affect all of us, and I think they are very universal. 00:14:56.262 --> 00:14:57.923 And it's part of what TEDWomen does. 00:14:57.923 --> 00:15:01.706 It unites all of us in a cause we have to believe in, 00:15:01.706 --> 00:15:05.954 which is more women, more voice, more equality. NOTE Paragraph 00:15:05.954 --> 00:15:12.735 PM: If you were invited now to make another TEDWomen talk, 00:15:12.735 --> 00:15:18.029 what would you say that is a result of this experience, for you personally, 00:15:18.029 --> 00:15:20.648 and what you've learned about women, and men, 00:15:20.648 --> 00:15:24.334 as you've made this journey? NOTE Paragraph 00:15:24.334 --> 00:15:27.432 SS: I think I would say -- I tried to say this strongly, 00:15:27.432 --> 00:15:29.886 but I think I can say it more strongly -- 00:15:29.886 --> 00:15:33.290 I want to say that the status quo is not enough. 00:15:33.290 --> 00:15:36.270 That it's not good enough, that it's not changing quickly enough. 00:15:36.270 --> 00:15:41.397 Since I gave my TED Talk and published my book, another year of data came out from the U.S. Census. 00:15:41.397 --> 00:15:43.186 And you know what we found? 00:15:43.186 --> 00:15:45.963 No movement in the wage gap for women in the United States. 00:15:45.963 --> 00:15:48.509 Seventy-seven cents to the dollar. 00:15:48.509 --> 00:15:50.543 If you are a black woman, 64 cents. 00:15:50.543 --> 00:15:53.051 If you are a Latina, we're at 54 cents. 00:15:53.051 --> 00:15:55.479 Do you know when the last time those numbers went up? 00:15:55.479 --> 00:15:59.786 2002. 00:15:59.786 --> 00:16:02.670 We are stagnating, we are stagnating in so many ways. 00:16:02.670 --> 00:16:05.478 And I think we are not really being honest about that, 00:16:05.478 --> 00:16:08.724 for so many reasons. It's so hard to talk about gender. 00:16:08.724 --> 00:16:12.541 We shy away from the word "feminist," a word I really think we need to embrace. 00:16:12.541 --> 00:16:15.733 We have to get rid of the word bossy and bring back -- 00:16:15.733 --> 00:16:18.893 (Applause) 00:16:18.893 --> 00:16:23.215 I think I would say in a louder voice, we need to get rid of the word "bossy" 00:16:23.215 --> 00:16:26.276 and bring back the word "feminist," because we need it. 00:16:26.276 --> 00:16:27.761 (Applause) NOTE Paragraph 00:16:27.761 --> 00:16:30.803 PM: And we all need to do a lot more leaning in. NOTE Paragraph 00:16:30.803 --> 00:16:32.004 SS: A lot more leaning in. NOTE Paragraph 00:16:32.004 --> 00:16:33.234 PM: Thank you, Sheryl. 00:16:33.234 --> 00:16:34.468 Thanks for leaning in and saying yes. NOTE Paragraph 00:16:34.468 --> 00:16:36.630 SS: Thank you. NOTE Paragraph 00:16:36.630 --> 00:16:38.899 (Applause)