The good news, as K.J. Dell'Antonia put it in a New York Times Motherlode column, is that we're starting to talk "openly and almost constantly about what people have to do physically to go to work and raise a family." Noting that help, structure and flexibility are needed if any woman is going to make family and career work, she said, "When we ask what Ms. Mayer is going to need, on some level we're asking what anyone who works and parents needs."
She's right, of course. But as the old adage goes, "Talk is cheap." We have a long way to go before we actually tackle legislatively the issues raised by this debate. Meanwhile, Ms. Mayer will give birth, and even she will realize how hard it is to be a good parent and a successful professional simultaneously in this country, Fortune 500 CEO or not.
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Author Note: Also posted by Women's Feature Service, India.
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