What Beyoncé & Serena Williams have taught me about ambition & motherhood
It's been a little more than a week since Serena Williams announced her retirement, and I'm still in shambles. As soon as I read Olympia, her 4-year-o
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It's been a little more than a week since Serena Williams announced her retirement, and I'm still in shambles. As soon as I read Olympia, her 4-year-o
Experts agree, that “having it all is not possible.” Motherhood is messy and further complicated by demands placed on women by society, the workplace, and our own expectations of family life. A new book, Pay Up, by women’s rights activist Reshma Saujani, says women have been fed “‘The Big Lie,’ which boils down to this: It makes no difference how much we lean into our careers or “whether we partner up with ‘one of the good ones,’ because we participate in a workforce and live in a society that do not make ‘having it all’ actually possible.”
Lara Bazelon’s book argues that children benefit from seeing their mothers pursue careers.
We'll discuss redistricting chaos in SF; how women prioritizing their careers can be good for kids; and we'll learn about San Francisco Briones Society