[...] Current poster-woman for corporate feminism, billionaire Sheryl Sandberg represents what we might call 'oblivious' feminism: the kind that has to ignore global financial crises, government austerity policies and ingrained sexism in order to argue that feminism is a kind of moral or existential decision [...] When Sandberg describes an 'ambition gap' amongst women in corporate environments, she cannot possibly ask herself what might be wrong with capitalism itseelf such that many women have no or little interest, or ability, to bridge such a 'gap'. The gap is less the problem than the system that depends upon the gap, and no amount of over-conforming and 'playing the game' is going to get rid of it.
[...] Current poster-woman for corporate feminism, billionaire Sheryl Sandberg represents what we might call 'oblivious' feminism: the kind that has to ignore global financial crises, government austerity policies and ingrained sexism in order to argue that feminism is a kind of moral or existential decision [...] When Sandberg describes an 'ambition gap' amongst women in corporate environments, she cannot possibly ask herself what might be wrong with capitalism itseelf such that many women have no or little interest, or ability, to bridge such a 'gap'. The gap is less the problem than the system that depends upon the gap, and no amount of over-conforming and 'playing the game' is going to get rid of it.