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Today, Explained

The “Lean In” era is over

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Execs like YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki and Meta’s Sheryl Sandberg paved the way for women in tech. Now they’re leaving the industry — and being replaced by men. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited and fact-checked by Matt Collette with additional fact help from Victoria Chamberlin, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Mark Zuckerberg announced this week that meta is going to lay off around 10,000 people

0:06.2

and will not fill 5,000 open positions in a quest to make 2023 his words, a year of efficiency.

0:15.5

It's a year of something else, too.

0:17.6

Two high-profile departures in the past few months, YouTube CEO Susan Wajewski and Cheryl

0:23.3

Sandberg, the former CEO of meta, mean there are currently no women leading big tech companies,

0:30.0

big tech defined as MANG or meta-appel-amazon, Netflix and Google.

0:36.1

What is going on here?

0:37.1

Susan Wajewski was at Google since Google was in a garage.

0:40.6

It was her garage and Cheryl.

0:42.6

Do not lean back lean in.

0:44.5

Sandberg?

0:45.5

She wrote the book and the TED talk on women leaders in tech.

0:48.8

Coming up on today's point as Silicon Valley cuts jobs is the era of lean-in finally over.

1:00.2

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