Real equality for men and women needs a men’s movement to sweep away the gender roles that we continue to impose on men even as we struggle to remove them from women.

It is one thing to let go of the housekeeping. Quite another to relinquish being the center of your children’s universe.

The European problem is that it assumes that the minute a woman has a child, the mother identity subsumes the professional identity. Now she’s the mother, above all, and we must give her all this time.

If we’re going to have better choices for women, we’ve got to have better choices for men.

We all love narratives where we’re the captain of our boat, and Americans love them more than anybody else.

It is society as a whole that assigns value and prestige to what people do;.

I am convinced that this country is ready to have a woman in the White House, but I also think there’s still a lot of hidden sexism.

Of the world’s 175 largest nation-states and private firms, 112 are corporations.

Balance” is a luxury. Equality is a necessity. When we stop talking about work-life balance and start talking about discrimination against care and caregiving, we see the world differently.

I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg’s narrative also implies: “Well, it’s your fault if you couldn’t make it.” There is a certain injustice in that.