In an age when the options for college-educated women seem boundless, a new debate about what women want — and whether or not they can expect to have it — is raging. On Thursday, January 16, 2014 the Aspen Institute hosted Barnard College President and author of Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection Debora Spar in conversation with President and CEO of the New America Foundation and author of Why Women Still Can’t Have It All Anne Marie Slaughter. She says “It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. If we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, here’s what has to change”.

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