Mother of all debates raging over Slaughter and the sacrificial mams

AN American woman named Anne-Marie Slaughter, first female director of policy planning at the State Department in the Obama administration, has gone and said it.

Said what? Said that women can’t have it all. She’s said it in Atlantic magazine (Atlantic.com) at some length — maybe 10 times the length of the column you’re currently reading, thereby generating a storm of comment, roughly equivalent to the storm a few weeks back when another American female executive went to bat for the right to cry at work. Cry as in tears and sobs.

Ms Slaughter is no longer in her prestigious former State Department job. She gave it up because her teenage son was “skipping homework, disrupting classes, failing math, and tuning out any adults who tried to reach him.”