Five executive women bust the ‘having it all’ myth
Tired of reading about male executives and their 5am ice baths, yoga regimes and sauna schedules, female leaders open up about their own real challenges.
From left, Stephany Dobbelstein, Rachael Rofe, Katie Lin, Genevieve Dee and Jody Fitzgerald.
There are five ways a woman can claim to “have it all”: she is either superhuman, super rich, self-employed, has a partner who doesn’t work or is self-employed – or she is lying.
Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown started it with her 1982 book Having it all, but more than four decades later, the words sound more like a reproach than a rallying cry – a pursuit that typically leaves women feeling overstretched and underappreciated.
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