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The likely reason for the Id LEAN IN: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, by Sheryl Sandberg. Alfred A. Knopf, 228 pp., $24.95. BY MARION WINIK Special to Newsday at every step of“About her to career. rui er” was jus backlash is found inThree, Chapter “Success and Likeabili- “Lean In: Women, Work,the and Will to Lead,” welcomes she received asclimbed she what she prefersdescribe to as the corporate jungle gym rather than(more ladder entry points, lotschallenges of and obstacles, no single pinnacle, you “aren’t stuck staring at theperson butt above”). of the An Fa Sheryl Sandberg’s manifest to advice book by Facebookoperating chief officer Sheryl Sand- berg. Noticeably arm’s-length coverage by Jodi KantorThe in Timesoff kicked weeks of hooplain and the vitriol blogosphere. Critics, many of whom hadthe not book, read which wasTuesday, published accused Sandberg of overreaching; of being elitist, anti-motherhood and anti-femi- nist; of not adequatelysenting repre- poor, minority and non-heterosexual women; and, finally, of wearing Louboutin and Prada. Others rushed quickly to decry whatlike seemed knee-jerk feminist postur- ing or plain old hating the rich. prised. Despite her deepsires de- to be likablesociety, and both useful crystallized to in this book, she has been

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