Sublime

When women got into positions of power, they calibrated and recalibrated tenderness and strength, modulating and correcting. Power and love didn’t often live side by side.

Agreement that women—including mothers—can and should take a larger role in politics and the workplace continued to grow throughout the 1980s and beyond (see

For women, authenticity lies in difficulty: this feminist assumption has become dominant logic while still passing as rare.

To be sure, we’re seeing the erosion of the ideal of an employee whose family responsibilities are kept tastefully out of sight. 

Sisterhood Is Powerful,

Our identities are too often defined by our relationships to other people—wife, mother, daughter—and prominent politicians defend women’s rights by describing us relationally to men.