It's disingenous of Ms. Slaughter to imagine this story is about her. She has had it all. She's done everything she wanted to do, when she wanted to do it— once she escaped HER gilded cage. Was she ever in one of those? I don't know. At her level of adult privilege, she certainly hasn't been held back. Young people deserve bold chances— all our children deserve that support. Our "work," ultimately, is toward the betterment of the world for our children, and for their children. That's what's upside-down in our world right now— the vanity of the short-sighted, the hubris of elders who destroy the future for youth. You want a movement for "having it all?" Start by giving it back, in spades.(The article, at least what I've seen of it, seems to indicate that individual adjustments to make it possible to give work and family the time needed to do both jobs well are not enough; "society" needs to adjust its demands on people so they can have both a work life and a family life [someone mentioned somewhere that men don't "have it all," either] without scanting one or the other. How to get that entity to act is left as an exercise for the reader.)
ETA: Twisty Faster brings up another point.
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