Slaughter

Anne Marie Slaughter was previously the dean of Princeton 's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Slaughter was the first woman to hold the position of director of policy planning for the U.S. state department. She held this position for two years until she was left with the choice between her time consuming profession and her family. She publicly spoke about how a woman can juggle a full time career and family until she realized this reality was no longer obtainable. Thus, leading to her article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” which first appeared as the cover story of the July/August issue of The Atlantic in 2008. “Why Women Can’t Have It All” is an illuminating essay on the struggles that women are left to face

department. She enlightens the reader with specific distractions in the back of her mind enabling her to fully engage into the United Nations’ annual event she was attending in New York. She expresses her concerns regarding her 14-year-old son who was beginning to engage in deviant behavior. The author expresses her failure being incapable of devoting the amount of time needed to motivate her son to achieve a customary behavior. Throughout her writing, she gives examples of empowering women who attempt to manage their time equally amongst their priorities. When concluding her article, Slaughter deviates from her topic of women specifically to Americans as a whole. She clarifies that one day we, a society as a whole, will begin to not focus primarily on success but the well-being of

Washington’s view on their employees’ priorities inaccurately assumes that giving up their career for their family means their career becomes less important to them. Although, in the eyes of the employee their career is still equally as important to them but they have grasped the harsh reality that their values of their family had slowly slipped through their fingers during the process. In the article, Slaughter makes a point that employers make it hard for a parent to balance their private lives away from the office along with the hours spent while at work. Therefore, the assumption made is people in power place low values on the care of their children compared to their other obligations. I would categorize this under a false causalities assuming that a persons’ morals on the care of their children is decreased once they have reached a position of power. She begins to explain how Elizabeth Warren, a woman running for Senate in Massachusetts organizes her time efficiently to be able to care for a children and devote the time needed for her work. Whether this time being when her child is put down for nap or in other circumstances with her child being on her side as she sits at her desk working on her writings. The work environment for feminist has become a slippery slope; Slaughter mentions that in earlier years feminist enclosed their personal lives in hopes to no longer be