Why Women Still Can T Have It All Summary

Anne-Marie Slaughter's "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" explains how women who strive to make it to the top struggle to balance their time between family and career all at once. While both women and men can have it all, Slaughter believes it is difficult in modern time because of the structure of society as well as the economy. Working demanding jobs requires many hours put forth to strive for the top. Family, children, and home are all factors played to the importance of having it all. The author realized that the job she was working did not fulfill the balance between family and career; it was evident her career was being favored which negatively impacted herself and family. “I found myself in a job that is typical for the vast majority of working women (and men), …show more content…
The flip side is the harder truth: having it all was not possible in many types of jobs, including high government office—at least not for very long.” As likely as it is for women to feel pressured into choosing or sacrificing, the author also mentions that men, as they don’t love their children any less than women, tend to choose or commit to their careers over family, thus, not feeling pressured like women. Under those circumstances, it gives an insight to why women might feel obligated to choose family more often which is important to why sacrifice is so common. “From years of conversations and observations, however, I’ve come to believe that men and women respond quite differently when problems at home force them to recognize that their absence is hurting a child, or at least that their presence would likely help.” All in all, there are still many factors to be approached into consideration, men and women conclude that they are obligated to follow the rules of the past as men work more and women stay as the caretakers which the author explains isn't always the