It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. If we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, here’s what has to change.
Anne Marie Slaughter's article captures the dilemma of so many women in America AND brings to light the ever pressing question, can women have it all?
A few of quotes that stick with us follow, do you think women can have it all?
"Consider the number of women recently in the top ranks in Washington-Susan Rice, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Michelle Gavin, Nancy-Ann Min DeParle--who are all Rhodes Scholars. Samantha Power, another senior White house official, won a Pulitzer at age 32. These women cannot possibly be the standard against which even very talented professional women should measure themselves. Such a standard sets up most women for a sense of failure.""Every male Supreme Court justice has a family. Two of the three female justices are single with no children. And the third, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, began her career as a judge only when her younger child was almost grown."
"These numbers are all the more striking when we look back to the 1980s when women now in their late 40s and 50s were coming out of graduate school, and remember that our classes were nearly 50-50. We were sure then that by now, we would be living in a 50-50 world. Something derailed that dream."
"Young women should be wary of the assertion 'You can have it all; you just can't have it all at once.' "
