Colleen27
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- Mar 31, 2007
Maybe he said it completely wrong. I don't agree with women having to make a choice between working outside the home and raising their family. But he specifically women CEOs. I think there is a big difference ( please don't flame me) between most women working and female CEOs. The job of a CEO, I would imagine - as I am not one, is drone consuming and not 9-5.
Exactly. He specified, both in his comments to young men and to young women, very time-consuming, high-intensity career paths. And while I know a lot of teachers and nurses and accountants and other everyday professionals who will argue that it is possible to have it all, people who achieve that level of financial success all seem to have the same basic story of very long hours and all-consuming focus. I do think most everyday careers can be balanced successfully with parenthood, but to me that isn't "having it all' - it is an ongoing compromise between competing priorities. But those compromises do take one off of the "CEO" track, I think, and it seems to me that the speaker's point was that there isn't anything wrong with that.