Sheryl Sandberg says corporate climate 'one of the worst' she has ever seen

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Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg warned that public displays of misogyny and “tech bro” rhetoric are damaging corporate culture at the world’s biggest companies.

“Rhetoric matters, who says what matters,” Sandberg told CNBC Senior Media & Tech Correspondent Julia Boorstin in the latest episode of the “CNBC Changemakers and Power Players” podcast.

Sandberg’s comments come as influential conservatives push an anachronistic view of gender roles, and amid fresh revelations linking sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to some of America’s most powerful men, including her former mentor Larry Summers.

The patriarchal undercurrent in American culture and politics also gathered momentum since Meta