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You already made their critics' main point so I'm not sure what you are ranting about. Yes a man can be a CEO and have kids. Know why? Because 9/10 he'd have a SAHM. There are still only 24 hrs in a day though so if he's spending 10+ doing work things, how much time is he really spending with his family? No one cares about that because that's still normal to us. A woman could theoretically do the same thing with a SAHH. Two problems with that: SAHHs are less common than SAHMs, even now, and women tend to want to be more involved with their kids than the demands of a CEO role would allow.

There are only so many hours in a day. Everything comes with an opportunity cost. They're complaining about something that cannot be fixed. No you can't have an extremely demanding, high profile government job in a city 4 hrs away from where your family lives and still be an involved parent. Man or woman, it doesn't matter. The very idea is absurd.[/quote]
You might want to read Slaughter's book instead of her article. [b] She addresses these criticisms.  maybe not as well as you'd like, but she does.[/b][/quote]
How can she address them when there's no way that would ever work out? I agree iwth the PP that you can't live in another city from your children, have an extremely demanding job on top of that, and still consider yourself a hands on mother. Life doesn't stop for them just because you moved to another city.[/quote]
That's not what her book is about.  She realizes everything you said, and wrote a book about something different (albeit related).[/quote]

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