I remember as a young mum and a busy reporter sometimes lamenting the darker side of feminism. Being a mum and a professional seemed then to be a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” proposition – you were either letting family time get in the way of work or work get in the way of family. My neice, now expecting her first child, is experiencing a similar situation. She was recently faced with a situation of either doing an arduous several months of dream-job training right around the time her baby is due or putting the training on hold so she could spend time with her soon-to-be-born daughter. “I want to do it all,” she told me.
According to Shine, former Lehman Brothers CFO Erin Callan recently wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times in which she stated that she has regrets now over trading her …