Jun 26, 2012 Why Women Still Can’t Have It All–Anne-Marie Slaughter for The Atlantic
Read this piece about the fiction women are sold of successfully raising family and career. The best longread of the month/year-so-far.
“These ‘mundane’ issues—the need to travel constantly to succeed, the conflicts between school schedules and work schedules, the insistence that work be done in the office—cannot be solved by exhortations to close the ambition gap. I would hope to see commencement speeches that finger America’s social and business policies, rather than women’s level of ambition, in explaining the dearth of women at the top. But changing these policies requires much more than speeches. It means fighting the mundane battles—every day, every year—in individual workplaces, in legislatures, and in the media.”
