egnant 37 year old, as its new CEO.
Mayer told Fortune magazine, "I like to stay in the rhythm of things... My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it."
Will she regret these words? Will the birth of her first child, a boy, slow her down from the 90 hour work weeks she is famous for thriving on?
Will she, like former Sara Lee Chairperson and CEO (and PepsiCo executive) Brenda Barnes regret working round the clock when her children were growing up, and take a multi-year hiatus to spend the last few years before her kids leave the nest?
Or will she, like many other women executives with children, including Sheryl Sandberg, just keep marching on while normal working women like me wonder how they do it? Will Maris
sa Mayer debunk Anne-Marie Slaughter's premise?
sa Mayer debunk Anne-Marie Slaughter's premise?
Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Brenda Barnes are perhaps women I most identify and look up to, based on my own personal choice to stay at home with my kids and shape my work around their schedules. Another hotshot woman executive will perhaps not dramatically change how I feel about my children and my decision to stay/work at home for the time being. From my experience, I will not be comfortable delegating some of my child-rearing, as these leading women executives most certainly need to.
Yet my grandmother was a working mother, and mom turned out OK! Goes to show how every woman is different, and each successful as a mother.
Suggested reading (my Yahoo Finance article): Finding Work Life Balance After Kids
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