Ambition

Intuitively, we understand this distinction well. Labor is breaking rocks with a pick-ax while someone holds a gun to your head. Labor is your tenth hour in the warehouse when your vertebrae are starting to feel crunchy. Work can be challenging, surprising, effortful, emotional, but it isn’t something that requires intense coercion, although may... See more

It’s hard to deny the overwhelming signs that we are in the thick of a feminist backlash. One of the big ones: The unvarnished attacks on female ambition, female creativity, and women who want to define ourselves as anything other than wives, mothers, and homemakers.