Peaceful Revolution: Rhodes Scholar Mothers Face Inequality Too

A great deal of our popular discourse on “successful women” is centered around the alleged question of “work-life balance.” Can a professional woman, at the top of her career, really, ever, “Have it all?”

For many, the words “Rhodes Scholar” represent Success with a capital ”S.” As a woman — and one of the first among us to be a Rhodes Scholar — I’ve always been interested in what, precisely, defines “Success” for our generation, and what will define it for generations to come. It is interesting and I must admit, disappointing, that at Rhodes Scholar reunions, women are still shepherded to panels on “work life balance.” And that we are told — by our Rhodes women peers — that we are “redefining success.” Why can’t we succeed on the same plane as the men?

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