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Could someone explain this paragraph? I've read it several times and I don't understand what his point is:

"Sandberg’s personal experience, however, contradicts this. She says that she has never worked for a woman. All of the mentors and sponsors she describes are men. When she was 27 years old, a man hired her to be Chief of Staff for the United States Secretary of the Treasury. Would a woman have been willing to hire her for the same job at age 17?"

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My rephrasing of that is, "If the working world is systematically biased against women, was it biased against Sandberg? Why did her male bosses and mentors choose her to be the exception? Would female bosses and mentors have made Sandberg's success easier to achieve?"

Hmm. I guess I got the gist that you've expressed. That makes me feel a little better, thanks. That last sentence was the puzzler.

Here's the point of the last sentence, which I had to read a few times as well:

When she was 27 years old, a man hired her to be Chief of Staff for the United States Secretary of the Treasury. What, if women were in charge, she'd have not been biased against and gotten that job when she was 17 instead?

AHA! Thank you. It finally clicked.

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