Can a Big American Firm Find a Mechanism by Which Women Can Come Back and Work?

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Amburg: The idea that a big american firm can't find mechanism by which somebody, woman or man, can come back and work the hours she wants to work defies belief. She asks what could we learn to help our british women be more aggressive and competitive without being judged to be either. Ate toos bester, i tha o, don't believe itco atletic questions. Can you please keep them short? But fascinating. Daniel, i just want to discriminate against you by asking you to talk just for 30 seconds, so you can get so questions. I think you can live with it. I can live ith it.

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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