sheryl sandberg谈为何女性领导者太少演讲稿.doc

So for any of us in this room today, lets start out by admitting were lucky. We dont live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited. And if youre in this room today, most of us grew up in a world where we had basic civil rights. And amazingly, we still live in a world where some women dont have them. But all that aside, we still have a problem, and its a real problem. And the problem is this: women are not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world. The numbers tell the story quite clearly. 190 heads of state -- nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, 13 percent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top, C-level jobs, board seats -- tops out at 15, 16 percent. The numbers have not moved since 2002 and are going in the wrong direction. And even in the non-profit world, a world we sometimes think of as being led by more women, women at the top: 20 percent.We also have another problem, which is that women face harder choices between professional success and personal fulfillment. A recent study in the U.S. showed that, of married senior managers, two-thirds of the married men had children and only one-third of the married women had children. A couple of years ago, I was in New York, and I was pitching a deal, and I was in one of those fancy New York private equity offices you can picture. And Im in the meeting -- its about a three-hour meeting -- and two hours in, there kind of needs to be that bio break, and everyone stands up, and the partner running the meeting starts looking really embarrassed. And I realized he doesnt know where the womens room is in his office. So I start looking around for moving boxes, figuring they just moved in, but I dont see any. And so I said, Did you just move into this office? And he said, No, weve been here about a year. And I said, Are you telling me that I am the only woman to have pitched a deal in this office in a y