{"id":4536,"date":"2025-12-17T17:55:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:55:41","slug":"sheryl-sandberg-says-silicon-valleys-hyper-masculine-rhetoric-is-terrible-contributing-to-one-of-the-worst-corporate-climates-shes-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4536","title":{"rendered":"Sheryl Sandberg says Silicon Valley’s hyper-masculine rhetoric is ‘terrible’\u2014contributing to ‘one of the worst’ corporate climates she’s ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sheryl Sandberg, formerly chief operating officer at Meta (formerly Facebook) and author of the motivational leadership book Lean In<\/em>, has some thoughts on the hyper-masculine corporate culture sweeping Silicon Valley: It\u2019s \u201cone of the worst\u201d she\u2019s seen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Sandberg, who served for more than 14 years as Meta\u2019s COO before stepping down in 2022, told CNBC<\/em> corporate America has undergone a cultural shift, explaining \u201crhetoric matters, who says what matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, the environment is terrible, really\u2014I think one of the worst you and I have seen in our careers\u2014but we\u2019ve seen this backsliding before, and that is not an excuse for companies not to do the right thing by all of their employees,\u201d Sandberg told CNBC<\/em> correspondent Julia Boorstin.<\/p>\n

Sandberg\u2019s comments stand out because her former boss, Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, has been one of the leaders of Silicon Valley\u2019s creep toward hyper-masculinity. In a January interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Zuckerberg said while he encouraged fostering welcoming environments, he saw corporate America as \u201cculturally neutered\u201d and said it could use more \u201caggression\u201d and masculine energy.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump and the White House have also been on a crusade against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives both in the public and private sectors. On his first day back in the White House, the president signed an executive order to eliminate all DEI initiatives in the federal government. Beyondthe White House, the Trump administration has also ordered all federal agencies to \u201ccombat illegal private-sector DEI preferences.\u201d Federal agencies have already started looking into practices at dozens of universities and some companies such as Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, whose DEI policies are being investigated by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.<\/p>\n

As the masculine and anti-DEI rhetoric has ramped up, women\u2019s progress in the workplace has stalled, according to the latest Women in the Workplace study administered by LeanIn.org and management consulting firm McKinsey, which surveyed 9,500 employees at 124 companies. Half of the companies surveyed are no longer making women\u2019s career advancement a priority. Another 21%, she said, see women\u2019s career advancement as a low priority, or not a priority at all\u2014and these are companies that are choosing to participate in the study, she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All this adds up to a five-alarm fire for gender equity advocates, said Sandberg.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Succeeding at work and uplifting a team means leaders need to be hardcore, she said, but the way to foster that hardcore mentality is through empathetic and kind leadership that brings out the best in workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese things are not at odds and they\u2019re also not particularly masculine or particularly feminine,\u201d Sandberg said. \u201cThe best leaders, whether they\u2019re male or female, have both.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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