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Re "She's (Rarely) the Boss" (column, Jan. 27):
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, suggest that women are partly responsible for their absence in the executive suite in all professions. What might help is a sponsor, someone with power in the organization who sticks (more likely) his neck out to endorse a woman in whom he sees leadership potential.
Much of this comes by way of those informal networks that women lack but that come so easily to men by virtue of simply being, well, men.
To Mr. Kristof and Ms. Sandberg's point that women lack self-confidence, sponsors challenge women to expand their expectations of their potential and negotiate for what they deserve. Data suggest that women with sponsors are more likely to attain a leadership role than those not sponsored.
Although the data are sparse and the jury is still out, sponsorship may be one approach to the problem. What do we have to lose? Not much else seems to be working.
ELIZABETH L. TRAVIS
Houston, Jan. 30, 2013
The writer is associate vice president of Women Faculty Programs, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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