Sheryl Sandberg Quote
In China, women who are single past the age of twenty-seven are stigmatized as sheng nu, or leftover women. They face severe pressure from their families to marry, stemming from the widespread belief that regardless of education and professional achievement, a woman is absolutely nothing until she is married. One thirty-six-year-old economics professor was rejected by fifteen men because she had an advanced degree; her father then forbade her younger sister from going to graduate school.
Sheryl Sandberg
In China, women who are single past the age of twenty-seven are stigmatized as sheng nu, or leftover women. They face severe pressure from their families to marry, stemming from the widespread belief that regardless of education and professional achievement, a woman is absolutely nothing until she is married. One thirty-six-year-old economics professor was rejected by fifteen men because she had an advanced degree; her father then forbade her younger sister from going to graduate school.
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In 2012, she was named in the Time 100, an annual list of the most influential people in the world. On Forbes Magazine's 2021 billionaires list, Sandberg is reported to have a net worth of US$1.7 billion, due to her stock holdings in Facebook and in other companies. In 2022, she announced she would be stepping down as Meta COO in the fall but that she would remain on its board. In January 2024, she announced that she would not stand for re-election on the board in May 2024.