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Why only half of us can have it all

Once, if a newspaper or magazine wanted to sell extra copies, it would put a banner headline ”What Do Women Want?” on the front page.

These days, the attention-grabber is ”Can Women Have It All?”

We’ve come a long way, baby.

If once we were vapid creatures who, in the view of Sigmund Freud, could not [...]

My tribute to Helen Gurley Brown

Catch up with my article from 17 August in the Australian Financial Review on the legendary Helen Gurley Brown who died last month aged 90. Read article

In case you still have not read it: Anne-Marie Slaughter’s controversial article on why she thinks women can’t “have it all”

I totally disagree with many of her assumptions and her own story is of a privileged woman who gave up working in the State Department to return to a tenured position at Princeton University (some would say, still “having it all”) but Anne-Marie Slaughter does raise important points about the inflexible nature of our workplaces [...]

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