Female Meta employees created a secret 'Facebook Feminist Fight Club' group after feeling unsupported by Sheryl Sandberg, new book claims

Business Insider ^ | Mar 11, 2025 | Shubhangi Goel

[MinorityRepublican]

Some Meta women employees formed a secret Facebook group in 2017 to talk about their workplace, according to a former group member, a new book claims.

Nearly 200 female employees who worked under then-chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg joined the group, called the "Feminist Fight Club," wrote Sarah Wynn-Williams. Meta had 17,048 employees at the end of 2016, according to its annual report.

Wynn-Williams, a former global public policy director at Meta, then called Facebook, published a memoir Tuesday about her six years at the company, which includes a chapter on the group.

The "Feminist Fight Club" encouraged employees to be more open about "systemic issues" women faced, including sexual harassment from men in leadership, Wynn-Williams wrote.

She wrote that the group was created after women took notice of Sandberg's silence around the Women's March, a large-scale women's protest against Donald Trump and the patriarchy in 2017. Sandberg, the highest-ranking woman at Meta, did not attend any march or post about the subject, the Washington Post wrote at the time. Her absence was notable: Sandberg, who wrote the bestselling book "Lean In" to encourage women to advocate for themselves in the workplace, was viewed as a global advocate for women.

[nwrep]

Sandberg was the lean in lady. Joe much more support did they expect?

[Skwor]

A bunch of women writing about how they feel and work issues and other girls.

What could go wrong?!

[Texas resident]

Emotional nutjobs sharing their feelings.

Waah.

[MinorityRepublican]

[ETCM]

They stopped getting the special treatment they had grown accustomed to. Meritocracy is incompatible with DEI.

[\/\/ayne]

In their minds, one must be a Communist to “support” women.

[Steely Tom]

Conquest's Second Law of Politics:

Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.

[TigersEye]

The first rule of Facebook Feminist Fight Club is don’t talk to a reporter about Facebook Feminist Fight Club.

Unfortunately that’s a rule that no woman on Earth can follow.

[MinorityRepublican]

Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.

Bud Light.

[KC_Conspirator]

“Global Policy”...a do nothing job. Except she wanted to hate the orange man.

[El Cid]

Re: 5
Well, from a pure looks standpoint, pre-Elon Twitter certainly looked better than Elon Twitter ... But from a 'these people look they might actually know how to program and work hard' standpoint --- I'd have to go with the 'less pretty' lot (Elon Twitter).
Beauty is fleeting, and only skin deep.

[No name given]

Exactly.

[Steely Tom]

Bud Light.

Sure. Or the entire education system, of the government itself.

[vikingd00d]

>>the group, called the “Feminist Fight Club,”

lots of details missing..
Oil, Jello, or Mud?

[frank ballenger]

Female Feelings Force Fringe Facebook Feminist Fight Federation Formation

[Bikkuri]

I wonder how many were named Tiffany... o.0

[broken_clock]

lol 👍

[Bikkuri]

"Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing."

[Bikkuri]

Sammich?