My graduation with my friend Adam Freed

Nell Scovell, journalist, co-wrote Lean In with me. Her work regularly appears in Vanity Fair. She began her career as a sportswriter for The Boston Globe and talks about that experience over at Grantland

About 41% of mothers are the primary breadwinner in their family and another 23% of mothers are co-breadwinners, contributing at least a quarter of the family’s earnings. Sarah Jane Glynn, The New Breadwinners: 2010 Update, Center for American Progress (April 2012), 2, http://www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2012/04/pdf/breadwinners.pdf

Marianne Cooper, a sociologist at the Clayman Institute of Gender Studies at Stanford, was the lead researcher for the book.  Here is a wonderful article she wrote on feminism: http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/new-f-word

Kunal Modi, a student at Harvard Business School, expounded on this from a man’s point of view. http://www.policymic.com/articles/29175/it-s-time-for-men-to-lean-in-for-a-truly-equal-world

Here’s a great example of how the conversation has taken off in ways that help women: 

http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2013/04/08/sheryl-sandberg-its-ok-to-talk-about-babies/

CEO of PIMCO, Mohamed El-Erian wrote a wonderful blog piece urging male managers to read “Lean In.” http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/03/11/sheryl-sandberg-lean-in/

“The Feminine Mystique,” Betty Friedan’s actual feminist manifesto, was published in February, 1963.  Lean In was published almost exactly fifty years later in March, 2013.

http://www.amazon.com/Feminine-Mystique-Betty-Friedan/dp/0393322572