Launched by The Atlantic article “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All”

• Salon response: “We should immediately strike the phrase “have it all” from the feminist lexicon and never, ever use it again.”
• “Sad white babies with mean feminist mommies”
• Got these great links from “The Week“
• Keli Goff on Huffpo talks about women who don’t want to have children.  “Being childless doesn’t make on family-less.” This embodies perhaps the greatest contradiction of 21st century feminism. Women are constantly reminded that we have more choices than any generation before us, and therefore our success is said to be very much in our hands. Yet the messages we are bombarded with don’t really highlight that much choice at all. As Slaughter pointed out, women who choose time with their families over career advancement are viewed as letting down the feminist sisterhood, but as Slaughter failed to acknowledge, women who choose not to have children are viewed as another species altogether. You could call them anti-feminine. In other words, there are bosses who are hesitant to promote women of childbearing or childrearing years because they worry that woman will be unable to put in the hours. By the same token if a woman doesn’t marry or have children by a certain age — even if it’s by her choice — that same boss is likely to presume that woman is defective in some way.”
• Stephanie Coontz: Why is ‘having it all’ just a women’s issue? “ In fact, according to the New York-based Families and Work Institute, men now report even higher levels of work-family conflict than women do.It was a great victory for gender equality when people finally stopped routinely saying “she’s awfully good at her job — for a woman.” The next big step forward will be when people stop saying, “It’s awfully tough to balance work and family — for a woman.” It’s tough for men and women. We need to push for work-family practices and policies that allow individuals to customize their work lives according to their changing individual preferences and family obligations, not just their traditional gender roles.”