On The Posner Show, Sarah talks with E.J. about the reaction to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic cover story, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” Did the way the article was framed do its argument justice? E.J. says Slaughter’s piece did a service to everyone bogged down by the more-than-40-hour-a-week expectations of modern work life. Do we imagine an iconic childhood summer vacation that no longer exists? Did Slaughter’s piece actually sound the death knell for the “can women have it all” frame? Plus: The byline gender gap.
Play entire videoAnne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic cover story, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All”
E.J.’s response to Slaughter
Jessica Valenti’s “Sad White Babies With Mean Feminist Mommies”
Karen Kornbluh’s 2003 Atlantic piece, “The Parent Trap”
Lindsay Beyerstein on Slaughter
Sara Robinson on the work week
Bryce Covert on Slaughter
Rebecca Traister on “having it all”
Erika Fry on the gender gap in opinion writing
John Scalzi’s “difficulty setting” metaphor
The OpEd Project
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