Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, a mother of two, believes women should marry women. In exceptional circumstances, they can marry men, she said during a recent
Makers interview (excerpt embedded above).
"The most important thing -- and I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred times -- if you marry a man, marry the right one," Sandberg said. "If you can marry a woman, that's better because the split between two women in the home is pretty even, the data shows." She didn't elaborate on her source.
Unlike men, women feel guilty for working full time, according to Sandberg. Furthermore, they are liked less the more they succeed. That's something that needs to change.
"I feel guilty when my son says, 'Mommy, put down the BlackBerry, talk to me' and that happens far too much," she said. "I think all women feel guilty. I think what's interesting is I don't know many men who feel guilty. I don't know a lot of men who feel guilty for working full time, it's expected that they'll work full time...I wonder if there were more shared responsibility if more men would feel guilty too and women would feel less of it."
Sandberg didn't exactly follower her own advice: she married SurveyMonkey CEO David Goldberg. We can presume though, that he's the right man.
For years, Sandberg has been leaving at 5:30 PM so she could be home for dinner with her children. She recently started saying this publicly in the hopes of encourage others to do the same.
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Poor David Goldberg...
Being a cynic I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but I am sometimes shocked by what people say in public.
Regards,
Jon
I concur...
NHL men jersey
Wait a minute, I thought Facebook didn't have any women in powerful
it makes sense
Answer: two mommies! ;)
Needed change
So then men have to marry men
Count me out.
Yeah...
feeling guilty
So sad.
But...
Unequal around the home?
For example, I understand the idea of a clean towel, but not a folded towel. It makes precisely no difference to me whether towels are nicely folded or crammed in haphazardly in whatever shape they will fit. From my perspective folding towels is as random and arbitrary an act as, say, standing on my head and spouting shakespeare.
Yet, if I don't stand on my head and spout shakespeare, I'm not pulling my weight around the house. ;)
unfolded towels
Now folding fitted sheets on the other hand, takes a bit more effort and has a higher difficulty, but it's still worth doing so that when you put on fresh sheets, they're not all wrinkled and crumpled up so the made bed doesn't look unkempt.
Of course, division of household work is important if certain chores are better suited to one person or another (or one likes to do it while the other does not), but the division needs to be done fairly, with the difficulty of chores and the frequency with which they must be done are calculated into the equation. A rotation where everyone has to do each chore at least once might be fairer, and would help give each person a greater appreciation of what others do.
Only your opinion
Well I don't really expect her to feel motivated to do certain things that I am more motivated to do myself. Nor do I expect any pressure from her to get me to do things that she can do perfectly well herself. I don't put pressure on her and the understanding is that she doesn't on me. If I feel like a chocolate cake I'll make one for the both of us. If I don't like the way that she cooks a particular meal then that motivates me to get up first and cook it myself.
Do what you feel personally motivated to do and if there is anything that isn't getting done then perhaps it doesn't need to be done.
See, that is a perfect example...
It is worth it.... to you. You have chosen to exchange some of your time for a neat looking bed because you find that valuable. And there is nothing wrong with that.
But it shouldn't be an assumption that this is something that *everyone* cares about or that it *needs* doing. A clean, rumpled sheet from the linen closet is just as hygienic as a clean folded one.
I often don't mind helping doing things around the house that I view as pointless as long as it is understood that I am helping with something my girlfriend wants, and there should be reciprocity for the activity.
Efficiency!
It depends
Anyway SlithyTove has a point, whether his example is the best one or not - women do tend to prioritize things differently than men, but those differences are overall a good thing.
Efficiency!
It's true that a folded towel takes up less space, but only by about 10% vs simply cramming them in. This gap can easily be made up for by simply having 10% fewer towels which lowers your costs and depreciable assets.
On the other hand you are making your towel-putting-away operation several hundred percent less efficient than simply wedging it in there.
So it trades a large (in the scope of a towel laundry operation anyway) productivity loss for a small gain in storage efficiency.
But, if optimizing space use were your intent you would be rolling them into tubes rather than folding them.
I wonder if your attitude of getting caught up in unnecessary minutiae carries over to the workplace as well where being efficient makes a big difference to the bottom line. ;)
I don't fold the towels
"need" is relative
Shakespeare falls under entertainment, especially if you're upside down. And anyone doing it is never considered pulling their own weight.
good lord, people