Anne-Marie Slaugther’s recent article in The Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” has come under much criticism this week for ignoring the needs and priorities of poor women, working-class women and/or women of color. Though she doesn’t really do anything about that, Slaughter at least seems aware of her article’s major flaw: “I am writing for my demographic—highly educated, well-off women who are privileged enough to have choices in the first place.”

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