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Photo Gallery A New Feminism Debate

Silicon Valley executive Sheryl Sandberg has written a new book in which she calls upon women to storm the corridors of power. The senior Facebook manager has unleashed a new debate about feminism and female ambition that is likely to spread beyond the United States.
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Sheryl Sandberg is the No. 2 executive at social networking giant Facebook under CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg. "We need more women in power," she argues in her new book "Lean In". "Only when leadership demands different policies will anything change."

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Another Silicon Valley executive has also been in the headlines lately for her own workplace policies. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is reintroducing the culture of being present in the office and getting rid of the home office, thereby placing women at a disadvantage once again.

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In her new tome, Sandberg argues that 50 years after iconic American feminist Betty Friedan (pictured here) made her famous plea for a woman's right to work, "It is time for us to face the fact that the revolution has stalled."

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