Women can't have it all? That's 'whining,' Hillary says in slamming former aide's gripe
"Some women are not comfortable working at the pace and intensity you have to work at in these jobs," Hillary Clinton said about a former staffer who complained that women can't have it all.
Don’t tell Hillary Clinton women can’t have it all.
The Secretary of State slammed as “whining” a former State Department staffer's public complaint that holding a high-stress government job is incompatible with motherhood.
"I can't stand whining," Clinton told Marie Claire magazine. "I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made. You live in a time when there are endless choices… Money certainly helps, and having that kind of financial privilege goes a long way, but you don't even have to have money for it. But you have to work on yourself… Do something!"
Former Clinton aide Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote a controversial essay for The Atlantic this summer called "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" about her decision to leave her job as the State Department’s first woman director of policy planning.
Slaughter returned to an academic position at Princeton University after concluding that "having it all was not possible in many types of jobs, including high government office — at least not for very long.”
In the magazine interview, Clinton made clear she has little patience for that gripe.
She began her tongue-lashing by acknowledging that employers need to be more "flexible and creative" to allow their women workers to care for children and elderly parents.
But she went on to suggest that Slaughter simply couldn’t hack it.
"Some women are not comfortable working at the pace and intensity you have to work at in these jobs," Clinton said. "Other women don't break a sweat. They have four or five, six kids. They're highly organized, they have very supportive networks."
Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote in a controversial essay for The Atlantic magazine that "having it all was not possible in many types of jobs, including high government office — at least not for very long.”
But as for her own career path, Clinton said she doesn’t plan to keep having it all for much longer.
When asked whether she’s planning a run for the White House in 2016, she issued what may be her strongest denial yet.
"I have been on this high wire of national and international politics and leadership for 20 years," she said. "It has been an absolutely extraordinary personal honor and experience. But I really want to just have my own time back. I want to just be my own person. I'm looking forward to that."
When asked whether she would leave the door to a presidential bid open a crack, she laughed.
"I hope to be around when we finally elect a woman president," she said. "That would be a great experience for me, to be up there cheering."
klee@nydailynews.com
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"Some women are not comfortable working at the pace and intensity you have to work at in these jobs," Hillary Clinton said about a former staffer who complained that women can't have it all.
Don’t tell Hillary Clinton women can’t have it all.
The Secretary of State slammed as “whining” a former State Department staffer's public complaint that holding a high-stress government job is incompatible with motherhood.
"I can't stand whining," Clinton told Marie Claire magazine. "I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made. You live in a time when there are endless choices… Money certainly helps, and having that kind of financial privilege goes a long way, but you don't even have to have money for it. But you have to work on yourself… Do something!"
Former Clinton aide Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote a controversial essay for The Atlantic this summer called "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" about her decision to leave her job as the State Department’s first woman director of policy planning.
Slaughter returned to an academic position at Princeton University after concluding that "having it all was not possible in many types of jobs, including high government office — at least not for very long.”
In the magazine interview, Clinton made clear she has little patience for that gripe.
She began her tongue-lashing by acknowledging that employers need to be more "flexible and creative" to allow their women workers to care for children and elderly parents.
But she went on to suggest that Slaughter simply couldn’t hack it.
"Some women are not comfortable working at the pace and intensity you have to work at in these jobs," Clinton said. "Other women don't break a sweat. They have four or five, six kids. They're highly organized, they have very supportive networks."
Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote in a controversial essay for The Atlantic magazine that "having it all was not possible in many types of jobs, including high government office — at least not for very long.”
But as for her own career path, Clinton said she doesn’t plan to keep having it all for much longer.
When asked whether she’s planning a run for the White House in 2016, she issued what may be her strongest denial yet.
"I have been on this high wire of national and international politics and leadership for 20 years," she said. "It has been an absolutely extraordinary personal honor and experience. But I really want to just have my own time back. I want to just be my own person. I'm looking forward to that."
When asked whether she would leave the door to a presidential bid open a crack, she laughed.
"I hope to be around when we finally elect a woman president," she said. "That would be a great experience for me, to be up there cheering."
klee@nydailynews.com
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...gripe-whining-article-1.1186810#ixzz29h1BE1Ss
