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Emma Burleigh

Sheryl Sandberg breaks down why it’s a troubling time for women in the workplace right now

Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg (Credit: Patrick T. Fallon—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Women may unwittingly be living through a turning point in their labor history. Hundreds of thousands are packing up their desks and leaving their jobs—both by choice and involuntarily—while people pontificate over whether they ruined the workplace and some CEOs call for a more “masculine” company culture. Now, business leaders are calling out the backtrack of women’s careers, and former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg warns of a damaging trend. 

“I’m 56, so this is my fourth decade in the workplace, and we are in a particularly troubling moment in terms of the rhetoric on women. You see it everywhere, in all the sectors,” Sandberg recently told CNN. “But what I’ve seen is when we make progress, we backslide; we make progress, we backslide.

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