In my last post (Having it out with having it all) I wrote about Anne-Marie Slaughter’s recent article in The Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” I said that she had some terrific points, but I didn’t elaborate on them. You should read the whole article, but here is a quick summary of the things I thought were particularly smart:
A suggestion from an assistant of hers: “MAKE SCHOOL SCHEDULES MATCH WORK SCHEDULES.” How amazingly different would a working parent’s life be if this were the case?
Slaughter’s list of “The Half-Truths We Hold Dear”:
Slaughter writes:
Let’s briefly examine the stories we tell ourselves, the clichés that I and many other women typically fall back on when younger women ask us how we have managed to “have it all.” They are not necessarily lies, but (more…)
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