公众人物毕业演讲第186期:桑德伯格2012哈佛商学院(11)

I try to be myself honest about my strengths and weaknesses

and I encourage others to do the same

It is all professional and it is all personal

all at the very same time

As part of bringing my whole self to work

I recently started speaking up about

the challenges women face in the workforce

something I only had the courage to do in the last few years

Before this

I did my career like everyone else does it

I never told anyone I was a girl

Don't tell

I left the lights on

when I went home to do something for my kids

I locked my office door and pumped milk for my babies

while I was on conference calls

People would ask,what's that sound?

I would say,What sound? I hear a beep

Oh, there's a fire truck really right outside my office

But the lack of progress we've made in the past decade

has convinced me we need to start talking about this

I graduated from HBS in 1995

and I thought it was completely clear that by the time

someone from my year was invited to speak at this podium

we would have achieved equality in the workforce

But women at the top C-level jobs

are stuck at 15-16 percent

and have not moved in a decade

Not even close to 50%

and worse no longer growing

We need to acknowledge openly that

gender remains an issue at the highest levels of leadership

The promise of equality is not equality

We need to start talking about this