Schmaltz on wry

Both men and women can have both a family and a high-powered work life, and there are many ways to do it,” says Sylvia Law. “One way is to do everything simultaneously, which is the way I did it. You have to be healthy, and you have to be willing to give up sleep, but you can perform at a high-powered job and be a good parent.”
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“The women’s movement never promised that life wouldn’t be a struggle. The women’s movement never promised that it would be easy to combine meaningful work with raising a family – only that it should be possible for women, like men, to do so, rather than being forced to make a draconian choice between the two major components of a fulfilling adult life.”
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“Sociologist Barbara Risman: “The women who break the glass ceiling have to compete with men who have wives at home, so they have to opt out of motherhood. If you look at the few women who reach the boardroom, they mostly live male lives. You don’t have people at the top who are struggling with this, so therefore things don’t have to change. When these women leave instead of demanding organizational change, what they do is reinforce this either/or choice that women have to make. The men in the labor force are not change agents, because they have wives to do everything. If women made the same demands as men and said, ‘It’s our right to have children as well as work,’ things would change.””
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