Why Women Still Cant Have It All By Anne-Marie Slaughter The

NameProfessor’s nameCourse titleDateWhy Women Still Can’t Have It All‘Why Women Still Can’t Have It All’ is an article by Anne-Marie Slaughter. Slaughter is an American lawyer, foreign policy analyst, political scientist, the CEO of the New America Foundation and a former professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. ‘Why Women Still Can’t Have It All’ was first published in the Atlantic Monthly. Slaughter’s decision to write the article was inspired by the critics from women who questioned her decision to quit her high profile job as the first woman director of policy planning at the State Department to focus on her family. The author highlights the societal and institutional challenges that women face in balancing career and the family. She notes that every woman who claims to balance work and life usually makes a compromise, and often it’s the family. I agree that women could have it all only if certain institutional an societal barriers were implemented. Flexibility is among the factors that stand in the way of having it all. Slaughter notes that, while she was working worked as a law professor and then as the dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International