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Sandberg and the female executives in the room said that they thought it risked being a "girl question" if it was asked in a "whiny" way.
Now Priti Youssef Choksi, Facebook's director of business development, asked whether it was "a girl question" to pose concerns about, say, maternity leave.
"As much a girl question as that might be," Choksi said, "the logistics of being away for X amount of time is something women are afraid of, and I'd rather tackle it head on".
Telling this story, Sandberg was critical of what she considered to be "girl questions". Now Priti Youssef Choksi, Facebook's director of business development, asked whether it was "a girl question" to pose concerns about, say, maternity leave.
When former White House strategist David Axelrod, a longtime champion, recently asked her in an interview for his podcast whether she would serve out her term, she declined to answer and snapped back: "How many men have you asked that question to?" It's really a girl question". After the interview, Axelrod spoke of Pelosi with unerring admiration.
I asked her what I thought would be the perfect young career girl question: "Didn't you miss work?" Her reply was so spontaneous and sincere: "Are you kidding?
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Telling this story, Sandberg was critical of what she considered to be "girl questions".
And doing that, naturally, means allowing some things that might, at first, sound like "girl questions".
She gushed like a sixth-form girl, questioned nothing and none of us learned a thing.
Investigators said the inquiry was proceeding slowly because of concerns that asking the girl questions requiring detailed answers could further upset her.
It starts chillingly, in a recognisable rural world, where a young girl questions her aunt about things she has seen at night: men arriving in lorries and being beaten up by her uncle and bundled into sheds.
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