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Are graduating from business schools, few are high stakes traders, women are still only 4% of the ceos in the top 500 companies. is that because of motherhood. >> overall, i have been having a terrific time being a mother and ceo. >> it is not as though women are not debating work/life balance. >> dont lean back, lean in. >> even though the studies show that women who run the hedge funds out-perform men. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. forgive and forget, anthony weiner is the latest to...

We dont give up and this is just the beginning. >> whoo! >> effective ad, angela? i found some women younger than you. >> well, rev, its not only very effective, its reminiscent of what weve seen with the young man kid president. hes made it all the way to the white house with some of the things hes done and its really nice to see young people being inspirational about pursing politics despite the mess that we have going on inside the beltway. the one thing thats really, really important is not ...

Damn well herself. >> ann was amazing. theres martha stewart. there were impressive women there. but i had the great honor of -- this is funny. i had the great honor of introducing ann. and they asked at one point for last years matrix winners to stand up and barnicle stood up. >> i was wondering when mike barnicle stood up. >> he just did. >> can barnicle win that thing? no, mika made a great point. everybody who, you know, mika wrote her book several years ago, couple of years ago about -- >> ...

Job of a man and dont expect to get paid equal. its a fine line in the work place and tough and hate that for women, if you stand up for yourself sometimes people think youre a word that rhymes with a witch and starts with a b. in the sense of family, i agree with her, from the biblical perspective youre right. shes been married for 17 years and almost filed for divorce or starting to go through it after five years in and made some changes and this works for them. >> clayton: weve seen a couple ...

>> an appropriate thing, but you are not asking women to lean in, but lean back and think of ward cleaver. >> im not doing anything of the sort. >> three of us and then you. >> what they are saying is men regularly marry women whoa are less intelligent. amazing how it can be if she is exceptional creaty. us women are unforgiving of potential spouses. >> i will not touch that with a ten-meter cattle prod. >> less educated. >> there has been a change and more -- people delay marriage longer than t...

Broke? how many people are going through bankruptcy? so youre not alone anymore. youre standing with a whole group of people but here is what the shame is. most people who claim bankruptcy once claim it twice. so if you are claiming bankruptcy, you have got to learn because if you get yourself into that situation again, if you go out and you rack up all this credit card debt and all this stuff again, and you have to claim bankruptcy again, then i say shame on you. >> well said. well said. lets g...

Again, then i say shame on you. >> well said. well said. lets go to another question here about cheryl sandberg. >> hi, huz suze. how are you? what do you think about the new book "lean in"? >> i love it. >> me, too. i stayed up all night reading it. >> you were leaning in there. >> heres the thing. i was just here at cnn a few weeks ago and i heard her speak, and if people really listened to the conversation that she wanted to have and shes having now, if they really read the book, they would u...

Government is so intertwined. >> facebook coo sheryl sandberg says women need to be called to action. a new book called "lean in." it takes a look at what is holding women back from leadership roles in the workplace. i sat down with sheryl and we talked about obstacles women face whe getting ahead, including likability. >> until literally a few years ago, i never said the word woman in the workforce, right? >> now with her new book, "lean in," sheryl sandberg is not only talking and writing abou...

>> right. realistically, dont you have to have -- i mean, you talk about it in the book, you give tips on how to have an engaging personality to realistically be successful. i dont know that people give men tips on an engaging personality. >> the cards are stacked against women and im sure about that in the book. what "lean in" is trying to do is open peoples eyes to the way cards are stacked. if we stop calling little girls bossy. when we say bossy, my daughter has executive leadership skills, ...

She says its time to change that. >> when i got on stage 2 1/2 years ago and said the blunt truth is men ran the world, the audience gasped fast this was news. i sat down at an exclusive conference next to a man who looked at me and said remember us. i was like what do you mean? remember us. there is a place for white men in the world. and i looked at him and said are you looking away this conference? there has never been a company in your industry not run by a white man. he said, oh, no, no, ch...