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Entity explains why Sheryl Sandberg is a woman that does.

NAME: Sheryl Kara Sandberg

LIFETIME: August 28, 1969 – Present

WHAT SHE IS KNOWN FOR: Technology executive and activist, Sheryl Sandberg is best known for her role as Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. Since being appointed COO in 2008, Forbes reports that Sandberg has helped boost Facebook’s revenues 66-fold. She is also known for her bestselling book, “Lean In,” which talks about gender differences, reveals how women are held back in the workplace and offers advice to help women achieve their goals. In 2016, Forbes ranked her as number 37 on its Most Powerful Women list and number 14 on its America’s Self-Made Women list.

WHY WE LOVE HER: When Sandberg joined Facebook in 2008, the company was just a startup. Since then, with Sandberg’s help, the company’s revenue has gone from a $56 million annual loss to a nearly $3.7 billion profit. It currently ranks as the fourth most valuable technology company in the world and has a market value of over $320 billion. Sandberg is responsible for helping the company scale its operations, expand its global presence and manage sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy, privacy and communications. But as Business Insider writes, “Sandberg would never take all the credit – a company is made up of its employees, not just its leaders. But her leadership certain helped transform Zuckerberg’s passion and smarts into a real business.”

Aside from being business and tech savvy, Sandberg has also spent most of her career advocating for women and speaking out about the importance of giving women equal opportunities to thrive. In 2010, she delivered a TED talk titled “Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders.” Her speech shines a light on how women still face many external and institutional barriers to success. Instead of becoming discouraged by this reality, Sandberg urges women to have the confidence to reach for opportunities, to share responsibilities at home and to challenge themselves at work.

Sandberg has spent her career arguing for societal change. According to her, the ultimate goal of her efforts is to encourage women to “lean in” to positions of leadership because she believes that having more female voices will help create better opportunities for everyone. In her book, Sandberg writes, “A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.”

FUN FACT: Sandberg, along with Beyoncé, Condoleezza Rice, Jane Lynch and other powerful female figures, was part of a movement to ban the word “bossy” when talking about women for its condescending connotations. Additionally, the Lean In website partnered with Girl Scouts to create a “Ban Bossy” campaign to help girls everywhere “flex their leadership muscles (and have fun doing it).”

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