In pursuit of true equality

Speaking to a Singapore audience at a talk organised by SMU titled The Next Phase of the Women's Movement Must be a Men's Movement, Princeton University Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter said that her views have changed since her July/August 2012 piece in The Atlantic, headlined Why Women Still Can't Have It All. She now sees it "much more in terms not of discrimination against women but rather of not valuing the work that women have traditionally done, not valuing the work of care" – and frames the issue as one of "balancing competition and care in our life, in the workplace", for both men and women. In other words, just as women know fully well that their place is now no longer only in the home, and are to be encouraged and supported in their career aspirations, men (and women) must see that it is every bit as important and desirable for fathers to be caregivers as breadwinners.

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The Business Times