Sheryl Sandberg Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Couple, People

  "Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: ‘I Feel Guilty Working Because Of My Kids’" by Catharine Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2011.

• I'd worked on leprosy and malaria in India [at the World Bank] and asked myself the question: Why do we let 2 million children die every year around the world for not having clean water? Because they're faceless and nameless. So, for me, Facebook looked like it was going to solve the problem of the invisible victim.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Work, Women

  "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: who are you calling bossy?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2014.

• we compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Careers, Goal

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.17, Knopf

• ...parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest that having two parents working outside the home can be advantageous to a child's development, particularly for girls.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Girl, Children, Home

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.146, Knopf

• We're the only developed country in the world that doesn't have paid maternity leave. Paternity leave is just as important. Paid family medical leave so that you can take care of a parent, a child, a grandparent, whatever you need to do. I think we're shortsighted when we don't invest in our employees as companies, and as an economy, because we invest in them and they invest back in us.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Country, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Home, Careers

• There are really good reasons to leave the workforce or work less or take a different job when you want to be with your children. I just want women - and men - to make that choice once they have the child. Not years in advance, because... they don't get the right opportunities. They give up before they even start.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Children, Giving Up

  "Sheryl Sandberg, ‘Lean In’ Author And Facebook COO, On The Biggest Mistakes Working Women Make". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

• We need to start talking about child-rearing in the workplace.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Talking, Needs

• I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Believe, Reform

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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