Analysis Of Sheryl Sandberg In Order To Be A Successful Women

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In Order to Be a Successful Women
Hundreds of years passed and women still fighting for their success, still fighting to get a clear answer of one question, “How women can reach success?” In discussions of how women can be successful, one controversial issue has been announced. On the one hand, Sheryl Sandberg, the author of “Lean In: What Would You Do If you Weren 't Afraid” argues that in order to be successful, women need to lean in or there will be a cost in return. She states, “ “She is very ambitious” is not a compliment in our culture. Adjective and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same …show more content…

Being ambitious is something women should be proud of. For example, In Dawn Jefferson and Rosanne Welch article “Ambitious and proud of it!”, they both remark “If you 're like many women, you probably keep your ambition under wraps, worried that you 'll be labeled ruthless, even selfish, if you talk openly about what you want. But here 's a news flash: Having ambition-and letting others know it-is essential for a satisfying life, writes psychiatrist Anna Pels, MD, in her insightful book Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women 's Changing Lives” (39) I also disagree with hooks because instead of blaming the system, lets be realistic and talk about what we are able to achieve in the current system. Richard Dorment, the author of “Why Men Still Can’t Have It All” he writes, “If you don 't want a high-pressure, high power, high-paying job that forces you to make unacceptable sacrifices in the rest of your life, don 't take the job. Or get another job that doesn 't require those sacrifices.”(716) On the other hand, I agree with Ullman because being successful gives us the choice to be wherever is comfortable for us. In the movie “ The Devil Wears Prada”(2006) by director David Frankel, Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) choose to lean in and change herself in order to work for the editor-in-chief of American Runway Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), but in the end of the movie Andrea decide to leave her job because as much as successful she is, she is not happy. While Andrea and Miranda were in the car, Andrea said “What if this is not what I want, I mean what If I don 't want to live the way you live” Miranda respond “don 't be ridicules Andrea everybody wants this, everybody want to be us” Andrea leave the car, reject Miranda phone call and through out the phone with a big smile of success and victory in her

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