Lynn Povich Quote

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg agreed. We reward men every step of the way—for being leaders, for being assertive, for taking risks, for being competitive, she said in 2012 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. And we teach women as young as four—lay back, be communal. Until we change that at a personal level, we need to say there’s an ambition gap. We need our boys to be as ambitious to contribute in the home and we need our girls to be as ambitious to achieve in the workforce.

Lynn Povich

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg agreed. We reward men every step of the way—for being leaders, for being assertive, for taking risks, for being competitive, she said in 2012 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. And we teach women as young as four—lay back, be communal. Until we change that at a personal level, we need to say there’s an ambition gap. We need our boys to be as ambitious to contribute in the home and we need our girls to be as ambitious to achieve in the workforce.

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About Lynn Povich

Lynn Povich (born 1943) is an American journalist. She began her career as a secretary in the Paris Bureau of Newsweek magazine, rising to become a reporter and writer in New York in the late 1960s. In 1970, she was one of a group of women who sued the magazine for sex discrimination. Five years later, she was appointed the first woman Senior Editor in Newsweek's history. Povich is the daughter of journalist Shirley Povich and the sister of Maury Povich.