Sheryl Sandberg's Non-Profit Leans Back and Agrees to Pay Interns

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s non-profit organization Lean In describes itself as “a global community dedicated to supporting women leaning in to their ambitions.”

We have to admire the organization’s stated goals, but we have no doubt that Sandberg’s PR team went into overdrive when various news outlets reported that Lean In’s top editors didn’t plan to pay the ambitious women who applied to work there as interns.

Cue the “lean on interns” headlines.

As the ensuing discussion began to heat up, Lean In wisely chose to take a step back and reconsider its policy on unpaid internships.

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