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Few women in positions of power in corporate america and the problem, she says, may just be the women themselves. here's cnn national correspondent susan candiotti. >> reporter: cheryl sandberg wants women to succeed and says it's alarming how far they haven't come. >> the very blunt truth is that men still run the world. >> reporter: in her first televised interview to debut her new book "lean in" sandberg tells "60 minutes" that leadership roles for women are alarmingly small. only 21 female ceos in the fortune 500. >> i want every little girl who someone says they're bossy to be told, inste...

Few women who make it to the top in corporate america. the problem, she says, could be with the women themselves. here's cnn's national correspondent susan candiotti. >> reporter: sheryl sandberg wants women to succeed. and says it's alarming how far they haven't come. >> the very blunt truth is that men still run the world. >> reporter: in her first televised interview to debut her new book "lean in" sandberg tells "60 minutes" that leadership roles for women are alarmingly small. only 21 female ceos in the fortune 500. >> this is deeply personal for me. i want every little girl who someone s...

Lot of hatred sort of swirling around what she was trying to say. >> even before the book came out. >> but she said these things are incredibly personal and they're incredibly passionate. like women feel them very, very strongly. >> and it's complicated. if it were easy, we would have the answers. we don't clearly. >> and women just feel so torn. because women tend to be perfectionists, they want to be the best at their jobs, but they also want to be the best mothers they can be. and so they live in a perpetual state of guilt and a feeling like they can't succeed at either role properly. and i...

There's no problem being a successful man and women just have to bite the bullet on that cultural reality. >> but does that mean -- that's what the article points out, she's saying that women should act more like a man in the workplace? >> well, no. i don't think that's what she says. i think what she's saying is you need to be aware of that negative correlation between success and likability and figure out your own way to navigate it. you're interrupting me and that is very unattractive in a woman. >> lean in. so once you point out that fact, that people correlate likability and success and s...

Steve kornacki, and professor james peterson. coming up, lean in. lean out. the facebook c.o.o. with equal parts likes and dislikes. stay with us. >> i'm not suggesting women aren't ambitious. plenty of women are as ambitious as men. what i'm saying unequivocally and unapologetically, the data is clear when it comes to ambition to lead, to be the leader of whatever you're doing, men, boys outnumber girls and women. today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahe...