News Summary

• In 2012, The Atlantic published Anne-Marie Slaughter’s culture-defining text, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” Slaughter outlined the workplace changes she saw as necessary to allow ambitious women to pursue big careers and remain present mothers.
• A decade later, in a post-COVID world, I had, in many ways, exactly what Slaughter had described.
• But I also had a hefty dose of burnout.
• For me, it was all too much — the constant doing it all.
• I’m not the first millennial mom with an office job to feel this way.