I couldn't believe my ears last night when I heard Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg's response to why women have failed to crack the glass ceiling in corporate America. PBS's Charlie Rose asked her about the lack of women in high positions, and her response was that it's the fault of women because they are not motivated, that they have an "ambition gap". She went on to say, "Until women are as ambitious as men, they're going to lag behind."
Sandberg's not saying women aren't as talented, or deserving, or capable, she's saying that they're lazy, that they don't reach high enough, they don't care enough. These are the same women who are dominating college test scores, graduating in record numbers, securing higher level degrees, but according to Sandberg, these women are ambitionless thumbsuckers and that's why 85% of the high level jobs in corporate American are given to men.