Let me back up and list Slaughter's complaint. Certain ambiguous women, highly educated and privileged, born in the 1950s, are, like Slaughter, having to give up their dream jobs in high, prominent positions alongside their male counterparts because, some, like Slaughter have at least one or more teenage at home already exhibiting a "pattern of skipping homework, disrupting classes," while failing math, and tuning out any adult" who tries to reach him or her. Apparently the nannies cannot do it all either. The husband, in this case, Slaughter's spends more time with the children, but it is not enough.
A "foreign-policy dream job" of leadership and power, "a rise up the ladder" job, and job in which she struggled to balance family and work as the "first woman director of policy planning at the State Department under Secretary of State Hilary Clinton had to come to an end after just two years.
If only the "system," "the American economy and society," would allow these women to have it all, they would be able to help out those poor sisters working at Walmart! Really! Not as equals but as leaders, of course,--we could "create a better society...for all women" if we could just "put a woman in the White House" so we are able to "change the conditions of the woman working at Walmart." Yeah, wow!
One less woman in a "leadership" position, so the rest of us are in deep ---- with one less leader, particularly those of you women working at Walmart!
Slaughter still believes, "strongly believes," that women can "have it all,'" but the "system," the "American economy," "society" needs to reform its ways!
Before I return to what it is that we women, or only those highly educated and privileged women, want, let us briefly consider the "genuine superwomen," according to Slaughter, in "leadership" positions.
Well, of course, there is Hilary Clinton, wife of Bill, mother of Chelsea, lawyer, former First Lady, former candidate for president of the U.S., and now Secretary of State in the Obama, drones-dropping-on-women-and-their-children administration. Who can forget Condoleeza Rice. But, as Slaughter tells us, Rice's success comes with a cost. She was the only "national security adviser since 1950s not to have a family."
Woe! Well, Condi Rice still managed to overlook a certain memo about a possible attack on the U.S. just prior to September 2001, and she went on as Secretary of State to help plan and enforce Bush II's foreign policy, which included that little business of "shock and awe" drama in Iraq. Some people call it a war!
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