Oh, no, no, no! Not another article about whether women can possibly have it all. Didn’t Anne-Marie Slaughter just tell us, “forget it, girls”thereby setting off an exhausting round of debate on the whole work/life balance mess? If you’re like me, you’re probably feeling fatigued by the issue, and just want to see it go away for a while.
But Barnard College president Debora Spar doesn’t seem deterred. Recently, she waded into those choppy waters in The Daily Beast. She describes how women have set up unrealistic expectations about themselves:
We have become a generation desperate to be perfect wives, mothers, and professionalsTiger Moms who prepare organic quinoa each evening after waltzing home from the IPO in our Manolo Blahnik heels.
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