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Why Women Still Can’t Have It All

12 points by sandipc 14y ago

pygorex 14y ago
"Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work" One of the major assumptions of modern day work - especially working for a start-up - is the assumption that a worker has a 8, 10, or 12+ hour block open every day to focus on work. We need to change this assumption and empower workers to set their own schedules and gauge them by performance and work accomplished - not by number of hours spent in the office or slinging code in front of a computer.
billswift 14y ago
Because no one can have it all: <blockquote> You can have anything you want: No dream is too big to achieve. But you can't have everything you want: We live in a finite world for a finite period of time, but with infinite imagination. </blockquote> - - Peter McWilliams, Do It! Let's Get Off Our Buts
tgrass 14y ago
Please revise title to "Why successful upper middle class women can't have it all." I am a single father (part time, 50/50). My job prospects where I live are abysmal. If I moved a mere two hours away and left my son with his mother I could increase my job satisfaction and income. I remain here because I can provide a higher quality of life for my son. At seven he has approximately 10 more years before he will prefer my wealth to my love. This is not a gender issue. This is what it means to be a parent. That this is being presented as a gender issue is testament to how contemporary feminism is failing.
- jaaron 14y ago
  +1 I'm also a single father (part-time, 50/50). Luckily I have plenty of job opportunities where I am, though I could certainly have even more if I would move. And while I don't want to dismiss the real issues many women face in the workforce, work/life balance is NOT a gender specific problem. While reading much of the article, I was thinking, "welcome to the club. This came as a surprise to you?"
gte910h 14y ago
I don't think this is a gender issue. You can be a parent who's there or not. Men have the same dilemma. Now some people EXPECT women to be there more, but that's a societial expectation. Both sexes have to balance parenting and childrearing, and choose which is more important for them.

12 points by sandipc 14y ago

"Having control over your schedule is the only way that women who want to have a career and a family can make it work" One of the major assumptions of modern day work - especially working for a start-up - is the assumption that a worker has a 8, 10, or 12+ hour block open every day to focus on work. We need to change this assumption and empower workers to set their own schedules and gauge them by performance and work accomplished - not by number of hours spent in the office or slinging code in front of a computer.

billswift 14y ago

Because no one can have it all: <blockquote> You can have anything you want: No dream is too big to achieve. But you can't have everything you want: We live in a finite world for a finite period of time, but with infinite imagination. </blockquote> - - Peter McWilliams, Do It! Let's Get Off Our Buts

tgrass 14y ago

Please revise title to "Why successful upper middle class women can't have it all." I am a single father (part time, 50/50). My job prospects where I live are abysmal. If I moved a mere two hours away and left my son with his mother I could increase my job satisfaction and income. I remain here because I can provide a higher quality of life for my son. At seven he has approximately 10 more years before he will prefer my wealth to my love. This is not a gender issue. This is what it means to be a parent. That this is being presented as a gender issue is testament to how contemporary feminism is failing.

jaaron 14y ago
+1 I'm also a single father (part-time, 50/50). Luckily I have plenty of job opportunities where I am, though I could certainly have even more if I would move. And while I don't want to dismiss the real issues many women face in the workforce, work/life balance is NOT a gender specific problem. While reading much of the article, I was thinking, "welcome to the club. This came as a surprise to you?"

gte910h 14y ago

I don't think this is a gender issue. You can be a parent who's there or not. Men have the same dilemma. Now some people EXPECT women to be there more, but that's a societial expectation. Both sexes have to balance parenting and childrearing, and choose which is more important for them.