In 2012, you wrote an article called "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" for The Atlantic Magazine. It was an articulate and meticulous article about why you left your government job and about women in the workforce who also have families.
I don't suppose that you'd want to publicly declare something like "The viciously misogynist culture of the Obama administration made me want to leave," even if that's what happened. Having read the entire article, I'm also not sure that you'd want to consider or perhaps admit that the conglomerate's war on the rights of women and children might have had something to do with your son's behavioral problems and personal rejection of you, even if all that happened was that he sensed your turmoil about being a woman chronically disrespected at work for an administration that is systematically destroying the integrity of society around the world.
I thought it was of note that you said that your husband encourages his male students "to act more like the women-to speak less and listen more." It seemed ominous to me, considering the conglomerate's lack of concern for the needs and true perspective of young people in general.
Although I thought that a lot of the rest of your article made sense, I have to question the idea, which seems to me to be espoused by several members of an older generation of people who call themselves feminists, that the way to gender equality is to accept that women are a certain way and to make society accommodate the ways in which women are intrinsically different from men.
Copyright L. Kochman, March 21, 2015 @ 5:49 p.m.
