"You can have it all, but not at the same time"

Li este artigo no Público e segui o link do artigo que a jornalista comenta: um texto da Anne-Marie Slaughter uma mulher com uma super carreira que tem uma visão (quanto a mim) muito clara e lógica do que se passa actualmente sobre a vida pessoal e  profissional das mulheres. 

Arrisco-me a dizer que este assunto quase parece fútil e um pormenor no meio de tantos outros mais importantes perante o estado actual do nosso país. É uma pena, parece que este tipo de discussões só é válida em países ricos e para pessoas com altos cargos. A verdade é que há muita gente que não passa o tempo que queria em casa, não por carreirismo ou opção mas por necessidade.

Embora seja um documento com várias páginas, vale a pena ler. E pensar no assunto. Deixo aqui um excerto:

"Consider the following proposition: An employer has two equally talented and productive employees. One trains for and runs marathons when he is not working. The other takes care of two children. What assumptions is the employer likely to make about the marathon runner? That he gets up in the dark every day and logs an hour or two running before even coming into the office, or drives himself to get out there even after a long day. That he is ferociously disciplined and willing to push himself through distraction, exhaustion, and days when nothing seems to go right in the service of a goal far in the distance. That he must manage his time exceptionally well to squeeze all of that in.

Be honest: Do you think the employer makes those same assumptions about the parent? Even though she likely rises in the dark hours before she needs to be at work, organizes her children’s day, makes breakfast, packs lunch, gets them off to school, figures out shopping and other errands even if she is lucky enough to have a housekeeper—and does much the same work at the end of the day. Cheryl Mills, Hillary Clinton’s indefatigable chief of staff, has twins in elementary school; even with a fully engaged husband, she famously gets up at four every morning to check and send e-mails before her kids wake up. Louise Richardson, now the vice chancellor of the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland, combined an assistant professorship in government at Harvard with mothering three young children. She organized her time so ruthlessly that she always keyed in 1:11 or 2:22 or 3:33 on the microwave rather than 1:00, 2:00, or 3:00, because hitting the same number three times took less time."