When Anne-Marie Slaughter, the first female director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department, wrote in The Atlantic about quitting her demanding government job in favor of having more time for her family, she seemed to go right for the throat of feminism. Reaction was, as could be expected, fiery.
ALM’s Careerist blogger Vivia Chen read Slaughter’s article, “Why women still can’t have it all,” and found it “regressive, deflating, and infuriating.” And in interviewing female attorneys at AmLaw 100 firms about the article, these partners blasted Slaughter’s piece for being too personal and not “universal,” sometimes coming across as overly dramatic, and not being satisfied when Princeton tenure, loving husband and family considered “she does have it all,” according to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s Marissa Wesely.
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