Occupation: University Professor Birth: September 27, 1958
What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as importa….
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..
I see much less of an ambition gap and much more of a workplace and society that isn't allowing us to use the talent that is multiplied well beyond t….
Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional suppo….
I’d been part, albeit unwillingly, of making millions of women feel that they are to blame if they cannot manage to rise up the ladder as fast as men….
In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back..
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 f….
It was interesting that feminists of my generation told me: You are discouraging younger women; you are confirming stereotypes of women; you are open….
I think an awful lot of the reasons people put forward for not liking Hillary Clinton play into deep-seated, negative female stereotypes: ambition, s….
Women still can't have it all..
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 ….
I am convinced that this country is ready to have a woman in the White House, but I also think there's still a lot of hidden sexism..
I am still fully committed to male-female equality..
When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that “civil procedure is the etiquette of ritu….
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 fo….
The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-domi….
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 futu….
If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men..
Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life..
There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to….
We all love narratives where we're the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else..