Check out this article by Anne-Marie Slaughter, the first woman director of policy planning at the State department. Do you plan to have a career and a family? What problems do you foresee?
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Why Women Still Can't Have it All
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020/
Check out this article by Anne-Marie Slaughter, the first woman director of policy planning at the State department. Do you plan to have a career and a family? What problems do you foresee?
Check out this article by Anne-Marie Slaughter, the first woman director of policy planning at the State department. Do you plan to have a career and a family? What problems do you foresee?
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I honestly do not want to have children, and I have a lot of issues with getting married as well, so I think that that leaves me wide open to have a career that will take up a lot of my time. And that is what I would like: a career that I really enjoy and can make a life out of.
ReplyDeleteBut I realize that this is not the case for most women, and frankly I feel that it is very unfair for women who want to be married and especially for women who want to have kids. The workforce is not kind to women who have kids. Your job requires you to work long hours and put a lot of yourself and your life into your work. If you have kids then you do not have that kind of time! I guess that the workforce and very high-power jobs are just more tailored to men. In order to be a successful woman, then you have to be like a man. You have to have the time to put into your career that most men have, and society makes it seem that you can't have kids AND have a great career without doing that. I feel that the only solution to this problem is to make the workplace more gender neutral and more mother-friendly. Maybe it should just be friendly to all! I mean, does ANYONE need to work 50-60+ hours a week anyway?!