Category: Career

In 2012, I was 29 years old, working as a junior associate at a fancy, big law firm in New York City, when I read an article that almost brought me to tears. It was an article by Anne-Marie Slaughter published in The Atlantic called “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All.” In this article, Anne-Marie essentially decried the impossible balancing act that working mothers in America are expected to do. At the time, I was a vulnerable, new, mother with a one-year old baby at home, trying to also balance the pressures and demands of being a young attorney in a fast-paced…