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JUDY WOODRUFF (Newshour): It's an old debate that has caught fire anew: How do women balance work and family?
A new article in The Atlantic magazine, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, has gone viral, with nearly a million views online in less than a week. It sparked a bigger conversation about the role of women in the work force, the competing demands on employees and generational differences over the ideals of feminism.
Slaughter is a Princeton professor who rose to the highest ranks of the State Department before resigning to live closer to her children. She joins us now from New York. We're also joined by Monica Olivera. She's a young mother who is the founder of Latin Baby and publisher of MommyMaestra.com, websites that are geared toward Latino families. And Naomi Decter, she's vice president of the public relations firm Beckerman. She is a mother of three who has also written articles and editorials for commentary for The Washington Times and The Wall Street Journal.
COMMENT: To emphasis the lag between technology that is alluded to in the video, business lags in implementation of "computer commuting" (aka Telecommuting) jobs.
There is so much work that is done via a desktop workstation (computer) that CAN be done from the worker's home. This gives workers flexibility AND saves the employer money in the long run (office space, energy, etc.), just to name two. The problem IS the private business culture still being "the worker must be in the office," which is the actual hold up in Telecommuting.
The only areas where Telecommuting is taking hold is IT job sector and government.
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