Slaughter's Essay 'Why Women Still Can' T Have It All
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Author Anne-Marie Slaughter believes that women can “have it all” while at the same time not “have it all”. In her article “Why women still can’t have it all” which first appeared in the July/August of the Atlantic, she tells the reader exactly why she believes women still cannot have it all. Slaughter believes that a women in the workforce has to make sacrifices by either giving up time at home with their kids or by giving up valuable work time. One reason Slaughter believes women can't have it all in today's society is that according to social standards, women are believed to be the ones that have to take care of the kids. Slaughter tells of her career as the first woman director of policy planning at the State department eighteen months