Life is not easy and everyone has to deal with stress; both men and women. Anne-Marie Slaughter explains her struggles balancing her work and home life as a woman in her essay, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All.” In his response, “Why Men Still Can’t Have it All,” Richard Dorment argues that men have it just as hard as women. Both make very valid points about each genders’ troubles based on their personal experiences, but they disagree on who has tougher lives. A main point of Slaughter’s article is that women can’t have both the home life and the work life that they want. After three years of working with fixed hours, Slaughter concedes, “juggling high-level government work with the needs of two teenage boys was not possible” (678). She explains her personal experiences with being stretched between her family and the workplace, and how negatively people view a woman taking time off to be with her family. Even other women talk down on Slaughter after …show more content…
He states that men are blamed for woman's troubles and that men are doing the best they can. Men sacrifice time with their families to make extra money so that mothers can stay home longer with their children. Because of this, women end up doing more work at home. The total workload balances out in the end, but there is still a stereotype that fathers come home and don’t help with household chores. Slaughter continues her essay by explaining how our current society is stuck with outdated methods that hinder women, The biggest example of this is fixed workdays. The fixed workday makes pairing a full time job with full time parenting incredibly difficult because there is no opportunity to change a busy work schedule to accommodate a child’s school schedule. It’s challenging for a large number of women to climb the ranks in their careers when they have to choose between a career or a