Why Women Still Can't Have It All, etc.

Photo taken from first article. Image credit: Phillip Toledano

I read two interesting articles today I thought were worthy of sharing. The first one is called "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" and has become a very popular and widely read article in the last month or so. It is written by Anne-Marie Slaughter who "describes her own experience of stepping down from a high-level State Department position to teach at Princeton and spend more time with her children. In the process, she came to an uncomfortable realization: No matter what well-meaning feminists might say, women really can't have it all. 'Not today,' she writes, 'not with the way America's economy and society are currently structured.'" The article is *super* long, but a good read nevertheless: http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-can-8217-t-have-it-all/9020/1/

The second one is entitled "Why There's No Such Thing as 'Having It All' - and There Never Will Be" and is a (much shorter) response to the first article:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/why-theres-no-such-thing-as-having-it-all-and-there-never-will-be/258928/ If you don't have time to read the first article, you could probably just read this one and get a fairly good gist of what the first article is about.

If you are further interested in the subject of mothers balancing careers and family from a Christian/biblical perspective, my friend Sarah did a blog series entitled "passionate, joyful homemaking," in which she writes on such topics as "should moms pursue a career?" and "God's creation of a mother's role." I've read the whole series and while I don't necessarily agree with everything she wrote, she does have great insight and I found the posts thought provoking.

This subject is certainly one worth discussing and I'd love to get feedback on any or all of the above material...