It’s not our job to do it all. So why does the Internet keep telling women it’s ideal to try?
10 min readOct 16, 2021
In July of 2012 in this publication, Anne Marie Slaughter wrote a piece that at the time, I suppose seemed somewhat controversial, but really just said out loud the things that I and most of my peers already knew. The title of the piece, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” offered Slaughter’s reflections on the challenges of holding down a prime foreign policy position in Washington DC, while struggling to help her adolescent boys navigate difficult teenage years back at home in New Jersey. The…