Anne-Marie Slaughter

Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughteris an international lawyer, foreign policy analyst, political scientist and public commentator. She is the current President and CEO of New America and a former president of the American Society of International Law. From 2002 to 2009, she was the Dean of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs. She subsequently served as the Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth27 September 1958
CountryUnited States of America
If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.
Young men keep telling me they don't 'have it all' either. And they may have a point. But if you define 'having it all' as the opportunity to have a successful career and a family, I'd say this. When a man tells his coworkers he's going to have a child, no one asks him how he'll manage or if he'll be coming back to work.
Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.
In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.
What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.
Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.
Do not vote for Hillary [Clinton] because she is a woman. Ask yourself, who has done more for women so far and who will do more for women in the future - and then make your choice.
The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.
Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.
Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn't mean having everything that you want. No one has that.