TED Talk with Anne-Marie Slaughter: Can We All “Have It All”?

    The resource above is a TED Talk speech given by Anne-Marie Slaughter who has served as the Dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and was the first female Director of Policy Planning for the US Department of State.

    In this video, Anne-Marie Slaughter explains what the real male-female equality means and how we could make it happen. As a woman leader herself, she points out that breadwinning and caregiving are not rivals, but they reinforce each other as equals.

    Here are some quotes from the talk that I think are inspiring to people who aim to stop valuing each other’s worth based on traditional roles and change our workplaces as well as the culture.

“In the workplace, real equality means valuing family just as much as work, and understanding that the two reinforce each other. As a leader and as a manager, I have always acted on the mantra, if family comes first, work does not come second -- life comes together.”

“Let's make the feminist revolution a humanist revolution. As whole human beings, we will be better caregivers and breadwinners. You may think that can't happen, but I grew up in a society where my mother put out small vases of cigarettes for dinner parties, where blacks and whites used separate bathrooms, and where everybody claimed to be heterosexual. Today, not so much. The revolution for human equality can happen. It is happening. It will happen. How far and how fast is up to us.”