Feminism - I'm Not Just Hitting Race, I Might as Well Hit Class

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I would like to see feminism do more to acknowledge that not all women are aspiring to be the next co of pepsy, potentially because they 're not in the corporate world. I think we need an honest appraisal of our history so that we can move forward. As long as too many women feel excluded or intimidated, this just remains an elite conversation. And i think that it's time for it to become much more than that.

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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