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Can we all "have it all"? | Anne-Marie Slaughter
Choosing family isn't giving up. It's a different kind of ambition. 🤍
Who it's for
Slaughter speaks as someone at the top of her field who chose to step back, which makes it easier for listeners to feel that choosing family is not a failure of ambition.
Conflicted→Validated
Feelings it meets
What it is
Expanding on her 2012 Atlantic essay "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," Slaughter describes leaving a senior State Department role to be home with her teenage sons and argues that work-family conflict is not a women's issue but a question of how society values care.
Where to find it
Free on TED.com (with transcript) and the official TED YouTube channel.
Before you start
Age: Ages 12+
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 184
