Sheryl Sandberg on the Myth of the Catty Woman

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3. I wonder if the study was actually finding that many companies wanted a "token" woman

rather than actually buying into the idea that women can and should be in positions of management. If they needed to get a woman on the board, or into senior management, but hadn't taken the step to actually incorporating equality into their corporate values, it would probably reflect in limiting the opportunity for other women to climb the corporate ladder. Where a company that actually did value women, would be more open as reflected in when a woman was able to make it to CEO, the company itself was more invested in promoting women.