Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

by Sheryl Sandberg

In 2009, married middle-income parents worked about eight and a half hours more per week than in 1979.16 This trend has been particularly pronounced among professionals and managers, especially men.17 A survey of high-earning professionals in the corporate world found that 62 percent work more than fifty hours a week and 10 percent work more than eighty hours per week.18 Technology, while liberating us at times from the physical office, has also extended the workday. A 2012 survey of employed adults showed that 80 percent of the respondents continued to work after leaving the office, 38 percent checked e-mail at the dinner table, and 69 percent can’t go to bed without checking their in-box.19