

If you are writing a scientific paper or a report full of data then use of the % symbol is correctįlextime – mostly referred to as ‘ flexitime’ in the UK – is when employers give employees a flexible working arrangement.

Percent – note that percent is written in full when writing prose. Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Operating Officer (COO) etc. Click here to find the official TED transcript.Ĭ-level jobs – the C stands for Chief, so these are the job title of the highest executive jobs in a company, e.g. And three, don’t leave before you leave.” Ultimately her talk is about keeping women in the workforce and how both the women themselves need to act (by leaning in) and how society needs to treat them. She summarises her TED talk thus: “My talk today is about what the messages are if you do want to stay in the workforce, and I think there are three. Sandberg’s talk focuses on the conundrum of “Why we have too few women leaders”. If you imagine a body leaning in, you picture determination, forward thrust, and fighting the drag of the wind pulling you the other way. I know because I checked in the dictionaries and it’s not there – yet!īy ‘leaning in’ Sandberg means women should embrace their professional ambitions and not pull back when they start to plan a family. With these two words Sheryl Sandberg coined a new phrase. Her book, published in 2013, is entitled: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. Sheryl Sandberg gave this TED talk in December 2010 and ultimately a book grew out of this speech.
