Who was heavily influence by Naomi Wolf. If you've read the Beauty Myth and Backlash (Faludi - her contemporary) they told us these truths years ago.
She also is touching on (in that article) what our DU Member Catherina has placed out there for thought on many occasions - the intersection of feminism with other groups' issues.
And on this - I couldn't agree more.
Most importantly, Americans have a remarkable tendency to reduce problems that others addressed through public policy to a matter of private “choice” and even personal psychology. But the real question is not whether “women can have it all.” Rather, it is how a sophisticated foreign-policy professional can write as if countries like Canada and the Netherlands simply did not exist.
There is much more at play in terms of (International Chamber of Commerce) influence on Public Policy than a woman's personal choices. The policies (at least in the US) do not support that balance. At the same time - the corporate policies don't support the single without kids either.
And I'm bringing that last group up because it's a way for a few people at the top to create divisions instead of every 'worker' saying: doesn't matter if I'm married or not. Single or not. Have children. Have a 'selected' familiy since I'm 1000 miles away from my primary/biological/adoptive family. If I'm a man and my spouse is a man. If I adopt or give birth. . .WE all HAVE lives. But work asks us to put it on the back burner and brush off the increasing demands on our time, for less money.
And in the middle of this - or rather lost in it - are the home health care workers (my experience while my father was dying last year) and child care workers - who step up to the plate for the female business owner, CEO, physician, administrative assistant, police woman, etc. etc.
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