Sheryl Sandberg, founder of Lean In, says more men are uncomfortable interacting with women at work since #MeToo, according to a study

Women are still experiencing the effects of men-dominated workplaces a year and a half after the rise of the #MeToo movement. A new study from LeanIn.org found that 60% of male executives felt uncomfortable interacting with women at work, up 32% from 2018. Interactions with Workplaces that worry men include mentoring, socializing, and individual meetings.

Sheryl Sandberg, Founder of Lean In and Facebook's operations director, said Friday in "CBS This Morning" that the survey results indicated "we are misplaced".

"Sixty percent of men in the United States – 60% – are afraid to organize a one-on-one meeting with a woman," Sandberg said. Gayle King immediately asked, "How can you be promoted without a person?" -a meeting? "

Exactly Sandberg's point. She went on to explain that the interviewed men surveyed are also nine times more likely to hesitate to travel with a woman and six times more likely to hesitate at a work dinner.

"The problem is that even before that, women – especially women of color – do not have the same number of mentors as men, which means we do not get an equal number of seats in the table and that, you know, this is not enough … not to harass us.You should also not ignore us, "Sandberg said.

Sandberg described the fear of men as a "false compromise" and pointed out that many of the scenarios that concern them can occur in public spaces.

"If there is a man who does not want to have a working dinner with a woman, my message is simple: do not have one with a man, group lunches for everyone." the explicit, think about it, make it equal, "said Sandberg. "Men must act.We must redefine what it means to be a good guy at work.It is not enough not to harass, and I think that too many people think that it is enough.It is necessary it is fundamental, but it is not enough. "

But it's not just the way men act around women in the workplace. It is also how the work of men and women is evaluated. Sandberg cited a recent study of performance evaluations that found that 66% of women had received comments on How they work, their style, whereas less than 1% of men did it.

"So, women have reactions that say that they are too bossy, too aggressive … and men who receive information about their work." And that's one of the reasons why men get more promotions, "she said.

Lean In's message, says Sandberg, is simple: coach more women so that they can be promoted to management positions.

"In a public restaurant having lunch or dinner, I do not really think that we can be falsely accused of something, so I think men have to act and that they have to say that, for women to be promoted, they need the same coaching, the same returns, the same opportunities as men, "she said.

Sandberg also raised public mistrust of Facebook following numerous scandals, including the role played by Russian society in the 2016 presidential election and its concerns over user privacy, as well as that scathing criticism of Chris Hughes, one of the founders of Facebook, earlier this month. . Hughes called on regulators to dismantle the company, claiming that the social media giant has become too big to go bankrupt and too big to worry about.

Sandberg said that its managing director, Mark Zuckerberg, wanted to restore the trust of its users and take the necessary steps to radically change the management of the company.

"We have huge teams in place whose job is to protect people's privacy, protect elections, navigate our systems and find something," Sandberg said. "We understand that we have made mistakes and that problems have occurred in our service that we had not foreseen.We had never planned the intervention of Russia in the US. election of 2016. That's all.And it's on us.But what happened in 2018? In 2018, we understood foreign interference.We find it and reduce it so much that the media do not even cover it, and if you look at everything people have written about us after 2018, it's still 2016. So we're going into the 2020 election. in place, we have working relationships with the FBI and Homeland Security. "