Why women should be happy we can't have it all
Women may still feel pressure from society to have it all, to take care of everything. But choosing and prioritizing will lend greater value to the things that make us happiest.
Women may still feel pressure from society to have it all, to take care of everything. But choosing and prioritizing will lend greater value to the things that make us happiest.
I recorded my had-to-be-quick take on the Anne-Marie Slaughter article this week for Marketplace radio (and the Marketplace Money weekend show); it is airing this weekend on various NPR stations at various times.
You should listen to it to see how I managed to get in a dig at the Bush tax cuts (I know it seems to come up in my mind in any context)鈥�
But my main points (from my economist-mom perspective):
One of these days I might find the time in my (happily)-falling-short-of-having-it-all life to elaborate more on my thoughts about the Slaughter piece and how in my life I鈥檝e chosen a much different path鈥揳nd how any of us who can say we have 鈥渃hosen鈥� a particular and generally happy and satisfying path are very, very lucky.聽 (In general I thought the article was very insightful and that women were probably over-horrified in their reactions to the negative tone of the title of her piece.聽 I鈥檓 sure that like me, many women trying to have it all didn鈥檛 have enough time to read the article before reacting to it!)