The excellent Anne Applebaum has a fine article in the New York Review of Books, reviewing Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” and Hanna Rosin’s “The Rise of Women and the End of Men.” It makes several interesting points and is definitely worth reading in full.

I’ll focus on one point, Sandberg’s argument (in Applebaum’s words) that we have “a serious, important social problem: the lack of powerful women at the very top of corporate America.” Applebaum is not so sure. She writes: