The Importance of Caregiving Responsibilities

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We are still assuming that that's women's s and we also want them to do men's jobs. And that is what is holding so many women back. So the next thing we do is to start focusing on the assumption that all workers will have care giving responsibilities at some point in their lives, either children, or if you choose not to have children,. It is the rare person that will not have caregiving responsibilities at somepoint in their lives. We simply assume that is an obligation of all human beings. Nobody raises a girl to day to say, no problem, sweetie. You'll just marry a nice man. He'll support you"

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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