What Should Feminists Be Doing Next?

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Women had to be choosy about their mates. They didn't want to tie up their reproductive potential with somebody not worth while. So men competed fiercely for mates. All the men here in this audience are the descendants of the victorious competitors. The women are not. It's just that, on average, they're less competitive than men. And when women say that, i think they don't realize how damned competitive men are. Men really, ah, they'll make any arena. As antdoctor to make it more gend and neutral.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Washington power player who upset the feminist applecart. At the peak of her career — as first female Director of Policy Planning at the US State Department — she turned her back on her dream job with Hillary Clinton in order to spend more time with her teenage sons. How, cried her contemporaries, could she have sacrificed her high-powered career for her family? Slaughter’s ensuing article for The Atlantic, ‘Why Women Still Can’t Have It All’, went viral, sparking furious debate about how men and women juggle their working lives. Having it all, Slaughter argued, remained a mirage. Women who managed to be both mothers and top professionals were either ‘superhuman, rich or self-employed’. On January 26, Anne-Marie Slaughter came to the Intelligence Squared stage, together with Amanda Foreman, award-winning historian and presenter of the recent BBC documentary series The Ascent of Woman, which charts the role of women in society over 10,000 years. They were joined by...

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