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Be left to the parents, not to a business executive who has written a book. i do believe that sadly, piers, in our country, in our culture, i believe that the career of mom doesn't receive the proper respect and i think it's because a paycheck is not attached. but there is nothing more important, more difficult than raising children. >> suzy welch, marissa lit this firestorm by saying look, yahoo! i'm fed up with my staff working from home, you're all coming in now. what about the rest of us who have children, are trying to juggle the two things. what do you think? are we heading to an era whe...

Women when the system's rigged. her solutions allow more people to work from home, flex time so parents can do parenting and work, not just mothers but fathers as well, require paid family leave in all jobs. >> i don't want to let workplaces off the hook. we need to support all choices that women make but this is a larger social problem and economic problem as well. >> reporter: despite her emphasis on personal ambition, sandburg admits, throughout "lean in" she's had an uphill battle to juggle her own work/life balance despite her best efforts. >> if you think big, if you own your own succeed...

>> arianna, that's a tough, tough order. do you think there needs to be more responsibility when you look at employers or even the government in terms of creating the kinds of things like flex time or paid family leave. we've heard very recently from anne marie slaughter a former state department official who is saying that's really where the focus should be. >> i think it should be across the board. i'm very glad that sheryl sandberg's book has opened this very important conversation. obviously women need to deal with what are called the obnoxious roommate living in our head, those voices of ...

Masculine if you are good at sports. you are not being a woman. young boys are pressured like this. young girls don't feel like they have to play dumb, but young boys are not allowed the same freedom in liking to do things we associate with girls. they get bullied and tease and we thought one of the things that is interesting is although there is a lot of prejudice against women as mothers, when dads ask for flex time, they are often bully and harassed on the job. there is a ways to go. >> stephanie, when the feminine mystique came out that, did not blame women for holding on to the outdated i...

>> dana: ten years ago employers called flex time. you get three weeks off if you are salary employee and you can use them however you want. you could take vacation time with it, or if you were ill, then you take days off for that. that was a model that people were excited about and thought would help taking sick days when they shouldn't and reward people who didn't call in sick unnecessarily. the feedback i got on twitter today i don't think it's working well. >> kimberly: what does the research show? >> bob: government map date, you think it's good idea for not have government mandate when w...