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Q&A
HUFFINGTON
09.09.12
are becoming almost obsolete.
Everything about your book—its title,
its vibrant, celebratory cover—says
“women are winning.” Why doesn’t it
necessarily feel like we are? Partly
it’s because the latest series of
recessions is a struggle for everyone. And partly it’s because
we are at the tipping point, in
a transitional moment. Women
do so well in college, and then
in their first jobs. But research
shows that when they start
climbing past middle management women hit that wave of
suspicion. In my book I give
women pretty specific advice on
how to get past that reaction,
how to behave around that.
And the fact that we haven’t definitively won control over our own bodies? To me that feels like a fear
reaction to women pulling ahead.
It would wreck many American families to go back to a time
when most women could not really work because they had no
access to birth control and were
home raising children fulltime. I
think that the resurgence of the
debate is a longing for when it
was simpler and a way that will
never be again.
Is the fact that there are still so few
female Fortune 500 CEOs or members of Congress also a misplaced
nostalgia? Give it time. It’s a 40or 50-year-old phenomenon
and men have been in power
for 40,000 years. This is a generational shift. We’re not
there yet.
Rosin at
her home in
Washington,
D.C.