sheryl sandberg the coo of facebook and on the board at disney, our parent company, back tonight withame-changer you could say, from the men and women of the nba and the fight to make things equal. >> hey, everybody. let's all lean in together. >> show the world you support women at work and at home. >> reporter: lebron james and monge the faces tonight, pledging to lean in together. when you have basketball players saying they're going to lean in too. >> so powerful. because in order to get to equality we need men to lean in as much as women. >> reporter: the conversation sheryl sandberg started about women, leaning in is tonight about to add new players to the game. >> equality is not just good for women. it's good for men themselves. >> reporter: and she says there's evidence. take startups. new companies that have more than doubled the average number of women executives. they generate more revenue. >> companies that have more women and more diverse leadership outperform others. >> reporter: but she says it has to start young. faurms showing rather than just saying. sharing the hou

she'll show us how sheryl sandberg is pushing men to do some leaning in of their own. >>> and martinot showing down. in a candid conversation, he shares what returned him to broadway that's ahead. >>> new york's "daily news" says actor harrison ford is on the mend after his plane crash. his son ben tweeted he's of strong mind, body, and spirit. the 72-year-old reported engine fail your to air traffic controllers before crash landing hit vintage plane on a california coast thursday. a doctor on the scene said he suffered significant scalp lacerations but he was conscious and talking. >> "usa today" shows us the country's happiest jobs. career blitz asked 25,000 to rate workplace satisfaction. school principals topped the list. they sight the satisfaction of seeing students improve. executive chefs are next. they enjoy leading a team to execute culinary vision and loan officers place third. >>> and "time" is showing us. look at that particular on the right. started when a photo of him was uploaded to the message board. it said this message man trying to dance the other week. he stopped

earlier i spoke with sheryl sandberg, the c.o.o. of facebook and founder of leanin.org. the premise of this next phase is that equality between men and women, you know you sold it to women and tried to get them to believe they could achieve it and how to. and this is directed at men saying equality of women in the workplace and at home is good for you too. explain that. >> we know that the new imf report came out if we got women into the work force at the same level of men, our gdp would grow by 5%. we haven't seen that kind of growth for a long time. from an individual man's perspective, if you work better with half the population you're going to outperform your peers so it's good for your careers. on the home front couples that share responsibility 50/50 are happier, lower divorce, more sex. chore play is real. >> i love that. >> chore play is real. don't buy flowers. do laundry. >> i think that's fantastic. i mean, who wouldn't push for me equality if they know they're going to have a happier wife, healthier children and more action? >> absolutely. across the board. >

earlier i spoke with sheryl sandberg, the c.o.o. of facebook and founder of leanin.org. the premise of this next phase is that equality between men and women, you know you sold it to women and tried to get them to believe they could achieve it and how to. and this is directed at men saying equality of women in the workplace and at home is good for you too. explain that. >> we know that the new imf report came out if we got women into the work force at the same level of men, our gdp would grow by 5%. we haven't seen that kind of growth for a long time. from an individual man's perspective, if you work better with half the population you're going to outperform your peers so it's good for your careers. on the home front couples that share responsibility 50/50 are happier, lower divorce, more sex. chore play is real. >> i love that. >> chore play is real. don't buy flowers. do laundry. >> i think that's fantastic. i mean, who wouldn't push for me equality if they know they're going to have a happier wife, healthier children and more action? >> absolutely. across the board. >

it's taken sheryl sandberg, a different kind of executive, bringing these kinds of issues to the foreee more tech workers and managers who are women saying this isn't right. the previous generation it was more stiff upper lip, you know, bear it, get to the top, and then you can tell your story. now, there's a different culture emerging. >> everything you may have said may be true, can you hang that on this case in particular? it may be they haven't settled because she truly is a hostile employee and that's why they're fighting it to the end? do they not say 20% of the senior partners are women. three times the industry average. it may be. i'm not there on the jury. i have no idea. it may be they feel their case is strong and she may not be the posterchild for this potentially. >> no. if you take a look at some of the coverage looked into, you know, who she is and her background, positive and negative, sure, of course, it's hard to find the absolute perfect victim to bring a case like this, but i think bottom line, the culture in silicon valley is being forced to confront some things a

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. >> reporter: while sheryl sandberg advocates for companies to be more inclusive, said all of silicon valley needs to do better. silicon valley has a reputation for a boys club. last facebook reported 69% of the global workforce is mail right in line with google and twitter. 70% male workforce. yahoo, 62% male. at facebook women comprised at 23% at senior ranks and though that's better than t 11% of executives as silicon valley vall top. 5 percentage points less than the s&p 500. according to a report by fen wick and west. >> there is a vicious cycle that needs to be broken and it's not, it's something that will require really conscious active thought by current decision makers and leaders. >> reporter: these companies are key trading grounds for capital investors. so industry watchers say improving the numb giants is key to driving up quality across the whole industry. silicon valley is rising to the challenge. intel is addressing the lack of female engineers with a $300 million diversity and technology initiative to train and recruit family and underrepresented group groups of compu

sheryl sandberg, marissa mayer these are people who rose up the letter.an smith rose up the ladder at google. google sometimes becomes unnecessarily criticized around these issues because they are a lightning rod. they have done some incredible work on this area. cory: thank you very much. ♪ cory: i'm cory johnson. silicon valley is the heart of technology but ultimately holds the future of medicine in its hands. sylvia burwell joined us yesterday in san francisco to talk about president obama's in medicine initiative. what is precision medicine? check this out. sylvia: a number of different things to forward this effort of making sure we can have medicine that is to the individual, treating to the individual. the first thing it will do is create a million person cohort or group of people that can be researched so we can understand the genetics, and so you have a base of people to understand different things for different types of diseases. the second thing the money will go for is to work on using cancer specifically and was able to see that here today,

the year after ellen pao file her case, sheryl sandberg wrote "lean in."have people releasing diversity statistics -- apple, google, facebook, releasing statistics that show less than 30% of their workforce, in some cases, is female. so there has been this momentum here in silicon valley, and it has not really been discussed in such a manner were both sides get to fully explore all the evidence and go through it point by point. and so whether or not -- whatever the verdict was however this plays out after this, people have started to talk about how this shapes their perspective, how they can move forward. mark: speaking of shaping perspectives, we did hear from some of the -- the jurors after the verdict. what was their sense? why did they vote the way they did? sarah: a lot of it was he said/ she said. several power was saying, this is how things happen to me and i felt discriminated against. kleiner perkins comes on the stand and says, she is lying. without firm evidence, how can you say definitively that it is discrimination? the other factor here is th

i asked sheryl sandberg if she's ever done that. >> as a professional -- >> smiles. >>> we think it'sor the prime minister of any country to come to speak before congress a few weeks before they're about to have an election. it makes it look like we are taking sides. >> the remarkable alliance between israel and the united states is always been above politics. it must also remain about politics. >> i think that it's been a distraction. >> israel is grateful for the support of america's people and of america's presidents from harry truman to barack obama. >> i did not have a chance to watch prime minister netanyahu's speech. i did have a chance to take a look at the transcript. and as far as i can tell there w

i asked sheryl sandberg if she's ever done that. >> i think as a professional -- >> smiles. >>> we think it's a mistake for the prime minister of any country to come to speak before congress a few weeks before they're about to have an election. it makes it look like we are taking sides. >> the remarkable alliance between israel and the united states is always been above politics. it must also remain about politics. >> i think that it's been a distraction. >> israel is grateful for the support of america's people and of america's presidents from harry truman to barack obama. >> i did not have a chance to watch prime minister netanyahu's speech. i did have a chance to take a look at the transcript. and as far as i can tell there was nothing new. >> to let iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle but lose the war. we can't let that happen. >> on the core issue, which is how do we prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, the prime minister didn't offer any viable alternatives. >> this is a bad deal. it doesn't block iran's path to the bomb. it paves iran's path to the bomb. >

in the wake of sheryl sandberg's lean in, not about these very visible forms of sexual harassment inhe workplace. that is what the ellen pao case is about. whether she was treated differently than the male partners. cory: i want to get to the specifics of the case. i think that is why this resonates. here we are, two white dudes but that is kind of a common scene in silicon valley, where men far outnumber women, where white dudes and asian men outnumber women as well in the workplace. guest: when the case was filed it was before "lean in" and before tech company started releasing their dismal statistics showing less than 30% of their workforce was female. it is a world in which it is called out when you make calls. everything is very sensitive to all the things mentioned in the case. like where she sat at the table and whether she was told she had to take notes, even though she should have been at the same level as the men. that is really the thing people look at here and think, i have seen myself in that. i have talked to a lot of women in tech and i do not know what happened to ell

. >>> steph curry and sheryl sandberg, sounds like a weird combo. we'll tell you why they're teaming up next. ♪ ♪ wow something sounds sweet in here!!!! ♪ ♪ need a little honey in the bowl. yeah!!! badabopbopbopa!!! no? must be the honey!!! >>> welcome back. facebook executive sheryl sand brk is teaming up with the top stars of the nba to bring attention to the fight for women's right at home and in the work place. over the next few months public service announcements featuring players like steph curry and lebron james will air during nba games. the partnership between the nba and sandburg's nonprofit lean in will be announced later today. >>> the giants are looking for some host families for some of their rising stars. >> every year the team's minor league affiliate the san jose giants look for south bay residents willing to take in young players. this year the team needs homes for 25 players who will live with families from april through september. among the sf giants who have done this in the past madison bumgarner and buster posey. >> put a bunk

replacement to hillary, that person, i probably would have to be woman to win democratic primary, sheryl sandbergomeone like that jumped in. >> elizabeth warren i don't would you but cheryl sandburg? elizabeth warren has so much support. as we see these attacks go on i stand behind that. >> julie shaking your head like it is going to fall off. >> elizabeth warren didn't go to the netanyahu speech. if she is thinking about running, progressive. obama is progress system cozying up to the white house tell us what is going on? >> on secret daily phone call i will share with everybody, left-wing -- >> change the number. you're in big trouble. >> i will share it anyway. here's the thing with hillary clinton. either you love her or you loathe her but she is pretty much defined right? there is no surprise. people are not going to change their minds about her. they're just not. people will say this is my woman, this is who i am voting for or say under no circumstances for any reason. >> what is her strategy, julie? get the younger women out? she keeps talking about women? to galvanize single women voters

i asked sheryl sandberg if she's ever done that. >> i >>> live, from america's news headquarters, i'mnt bill clinton picking donna shalala to run the clinton foundation. she was his health and human services secretary for eight years and serve 15 years with hillary open the board of the children's defense fun. she's none for her fundraising abilities. as university of miami president she raised $3 billion. chrysler recalls suvs and mini vans to fix ignition switches. the recall covering a number of 2008 through 2010 models. the problem is similar to one of general motors but those switches caused deadly crashes. i'm patricia stark. "hannity" starts now. the prime minister of any country to come to speak before congress a few weeks before they're about to have an election. it makes it look like we are taking sides.

i love what mark zuckerberg and sheryl sandberg are doing at if facebook.here aren't ha many businesses i know that have 1.3 billion users monthly, 900 million daily users. that is a very valuable franchise and platform. i think we're just starting to see the monenitization of that. i think you have a great visionary in technology. how many people at 29 years old had a billion customers? i don't know of any others. so i think, you know, the stock has come up, but as you noted earlier, it's doubled since the ipo three years ago. the business itself has more than doubled. and, you know, my experience is, that companies relatively new to the marketplace in their first ten years are at their most attractive point in terms of growth rate cash flow generation and ability to, you know, participate in a growth market and i think more and more people are spending more and more time on their smartphones and facebook is i believe the number one app in the market and i think that's going to be a very valuable position. i don't think it's going to get less valuable. it'

i asked sheryl sandberg if she's ever done that. >> i think as a professional -- >> smiles. >>> we thinkcome to speak before congress a few weeks before they're about to have an election. it makes it look like we are taking sides. >> the remarkable alliance between israel and the united states is always been above politics. it must also remain about politics. >> i think that it's been a distraction. >> israel is grateful for the support of america's people and of america's presidents from harry truman to barack obama. >> i did not have a chance to watch prime minister netanyahu's speech. i did have a chance to take a look at the transcript. and as far as i can tell there was nothi

. >>> coming up, facebook executive sheryl sandberg teams up with basketball stars in hotj69 furthering women's rights. >>> plus -- >> ifm6pe get shouted down will have to apologize and leave? an./unexpected guest attends a vigil for the homeless man shot to death by lapd officers. what happened when this lapd officer walked in to pay his respects. >>> plus the man accused of planting bombs in the boston marathon bombing back in court this morning. we'll have a live report from boston right after the break. >>> the boston marathon bombing suspect heads back to court this morning. what we can expect on the second day of testimony. >>> and the sexual lawsuit that grabbed the attention in san francisco. >> a couple days away from a beautiful day and things will change rapidly next week. stick around your full forecast is coming up. >> here you see the dublin and b.a.r.t. station and the traffic but i'm looking for the crash approaching the dublin interchange. we'll talk about it, whether or not i can spot it with this camera. >>> from the south bay this morning, some twinkling lights on th

i do not think that is in the cards for sheryl sandberg.le pay uses existing systems and makes them better, facebook is creating a new one. olivia: you wonder if facebook is going to go person-to-person or person to commercial transaction, they brought in david from paypal. you have the feeling you are going to walk into a store and pay with your facebook wall. tom: i have a checkbook, do you know what a check is? olivia: i do. tom: i'm afraid to ask the last time you wrote a check. olivia: every once in a while. our twitter question "is the strong dollar affecting your vacation plan?" ♪ tom: good morning. s&p futures up five points. top headlines, here is olivia. olivia: a bailout package. not making any guarantees. leaders met late. greece is running out of cash. the prime minister's also running out of time. >> we need to speed up the process. there has been too much time. we should not lose any more time. we discussed speeding up the process. if i said it was done in a fashion mutual trust. olivia: a promise to do so last month. there w

brendan: one wonders whether sheryl sandberg can find him an audio engineer.hter] brendan: in sports, it may be the only thing that jack nicholas had not one before. he came to receive the congressional gold medal. he won a record 18 major championships and he had also been awarded the presidential medal of freedom. tom: very good. go west, young cfo. it is an interesting trend. the siring call of silicon valley beckons many. michael for tech parachuted in this morning. he survived the flight based on his iced mint mode he does -- mojitos. maybe they need an adult in the room. is her job to be the adult for google and to blue-chip-zize like apple. >> google is definitely on a blue-chip-izing trend. that is a good point. i think that they have a core business that everyone knows about and they are making big, long-term bets. google is not very good at church -- competing in a field that is competitive. they are good at long-term bets. tom: is this a responsibility where she has to be an adult in the room? >> i think she will be the person who helps explain the

matt: ceo's, sheryl sandberg leading in the west coast seems much more diverse in this sense.ere, we no longer got a female who was a cfo or ceo of an wall street bank. michael: right, especially among big firms. i think it will be a continuing question. they are in that second layer and there are a lot of business heads who are females and maybe who were a few -- maybe we are a few years out from that, but certainly as you say -- lisa: what does it say about the appeal of a wall street jobs right now? based on whate erik was saying it seems like the appeal of tech companies is part of a migration you are seeing from wall street. michael: you are seeing it at the bottom in with people coming straight out of college and tech is definitely a more viable option. at the top end erik, as erik -- at the top and as erik mentioned, it is a grueling process for the cfo role. going through that tasks and paperwork associated with it. i can see it being a grind and the rules keep changing. that is the complaint that wall street has. every time they think they have got their arms around i

. >> we love hugh and sheryl sandberg on the board of the walt disney company has an inspiring campaign>> how powerful is it for a child, a daughter to see her dad doing the dishs? >> so powerful. a new study shows that by the age of 14 young girls who have fathers who do things in the home have broader career as pier rations than those who don't so it marys what you do not what you say. no amount of you can do anything dear is actually as important as your daughter seeing you do the dishes. >> how does seeing your dad do the dishes translate into success for you. >> it means you believe men and women can have equal roles. >> you can find out more about lean in together and watch the full interview on our website, goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! >>> amy. >> lara if all of you, all of you could go back in time what wisdom would you share with your kounger self? to celebrate international women's day, youtube is launching a video campaign asking people to respond to that very question, the video filled with youtube stars has more than a million views trending on facebook and it all start

the appointment of ruth the female head of yahoo, a female very prominent female at facebook sheryl sandbergere are women in high places but there just don't seem to be enough of them in a business in a world where the general employment base in silicon valley is 70% or thereabouts male. >> well let me say, first of all, that google smartly hired the most qualified person for the job. i mean, ruth is spectacular. she has a spectacular resume. she's well respected on wall street. she's really top of the line. congratulations to google for doing that. they've picked the best person. yes, there are high profile women heading different companies, but it's not enough to point out to a few, a handful of high profile women. that's not enough to give women throughout the ranks equal opportunity to come up the ranks. i think that that's what really needs to be done. there has to be an acknowledgment inside companies, and i applaud intel, for example, for making the commitment of $300 million over the next decade to increase diversity. not just women, but diversity in their ranks. they're going to wor

while sheryl sandberg is promoting her lean in movement last june facebook reported that 69% of its overallce. yahoo! is 62% male. there are fewer female executives. they comprise just 23% of facebook senior ranks though that's better than the average here in silicon valley where women comprise just 11% of the executives at silicon valley's top companies. that's five percentage points less than the average at the s&p 500 according to a study by law firm fenwick & west. this is a key for entrepreneurs and investors. so industry watchers say improving the numbers at the big companies is key to improving the overall gender diversity here in silicon valley. guys? >> okay julia. thank you. we appreciate it. it's dark early out there. >>> and check it out. a galaxy far, far away got closer. wax museum madame tussauds in london will open a multi-million-dollar interactive 'star wars" exhibit this may. it will feature replicas from the original and prequel trilogies including darth vader and yoda. the 11 walk-in sets reproduced will include the flight deck of the millennium falcon joba the hut's ro

the coo of facebook sheryl sandberg and the ceo of yahoo, marissa mayor, both launched their tech careerse number 20. >> was she really? >> guess how that paid off. exactly. >> sheryl was in 2001. and she was in charge of global online sales and operations until she was moved over by mark zurkberg over to facebook. >> wow. >> not a bad place to start i would say. >> what were we doing when we could have been at google? >> hello. over to you. >> from gainesville. who said there is no such thing as failure. failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. it was melinda gates, anna wintour or oprah winfrey? >> oprah? >> it was, it was oprah. >> it is oprah winfrey. >> absolutely. and the 2013 harvard commencement address, she said that launching her own, her own own network was the hardest thing she ever did. >> yeah, and probably learned a lot from it. >> well, what's nice to see, even the big girls fail sometimes. >> it's right. stay with it and you get there. >> over to you. >> this is young gentleman is from richard, he calls me ma'am it was nice. how many american women hav