It’s about the sway, not just the balance.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Joann Lublin says that for mothers employed outside the home, balance is not the goal, but swaying is.
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The coronavirus pandemic has altered every aspect of life, and the workplace is no exception.
In 2020, 2.3 million women left the U.S. workforce—either through job loss or being forced to quit in order to care for their children—leading to the lowest levels of women in the labor force since the 1980s, prompting Vice President Kamala Harris to declare it “a national emergency.”
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It’s a typical story. Accomplished entrepreneur with impressive degrees takes the child rearing detour and wanting to return to her career, realizes there are so many women like her who want flexible work and just can’t find any suitable positions.
On top of that, a global pandemic surges.
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We await near-universal availability of vaccines and see the daily morbidity and mortality toll of COVID, while the economy takes a dive and frontline workers are nearing their breaking point. An initial solution to slowing the spread of the disease—working from home and schooling at home—is taking its tangled toll on families, creating a whole new set of problems, particularly for women.
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It’s a phrase that has launched 1,000 arguments among working women. And it needs to go.
Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of New America, is tired of the phrase “having it all.” Even though she is the one who catapulted it into the global conversation about women, family and work.
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