Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: 'No one can have it all'

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has emerged as a leading voice for gender equality since she delivered, in late 2010, a provocative TEDWomen address on why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top.

In this interview—available here as both a video and an edited transcript—with McKinsey's Joanna Barsh, Sandberg (an alumnus of McKinsey, the US Treasury Department, and Google) expands on issues from her new book, "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead" (Knopf, March 2013), and explains why women need to "lean in" to gain confidence, develop skills, and become more comfortable as leaders—herself included.

[madsong]

I find this title to be very misleading: it says "No one can have it all", yet not a single moment in this video did the titular subject come into play in this interview.

[TheAndredal]

Yes, let's just put people from minority backgrounds and women in roles they're not qualified for and see how well they''re going to do

[Lone]

I love how women want TOP JOBS. Meanwhile men are on a job that actually keeps Civilization Running. You know, like Construction, Plumbing, Sewage Removal, Trash Collecting, Maintenance or any Infrastructure Job. I would also like to know how many women died during the building of The Hover Dam or the Empire State Building? Who did the majority of the dying during the WW2, or even the Iraq War?