Adding the "entirely lost" male voice to the work-life balance debate, Esquire's Richard Dorment not only tells of his own hardships as he and his lawyer wife navigate the working world as parents — he hears from an actually lost but still irrelevant voice, that of the man married to the face of the debate itself: Dave Goldberg, a.k.a Sheryl Sandberg's spouse.
Clinton told a Marie Claire reporter, "Some women are not comfortable working at the pace and intensity you have to work at in these jobs." One of our commenters thinks she'd be right if she changed one word.
In a profile by Ayelet Waldman in Marie Claire, Hillary Clinton responded to a question about her former employee Anne-Marie Slaughter, who wrote The Atlantic's cover story on why women still can't have it all, with some direct words: "Some women are not comfortable working at the pace and intensity you have to work at in these jobs."
Today in books and publishing: Silicon Valley exec will tackle gender in the workplace; Google and publishers make peace; Kakutani hatchets Helprin; an all-female issue of Armchair/Shotgun.
The question of having it all cropped up yet again in the comments on today's post about newly appointed Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. She just announced that she's pregnant, which has some people wondering how she'll balance work and family.
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