Unfinished Business - By - Anne-Marie Slaughter  Anne-Marie Slaughter’s 2012 article in The Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All”, which described her choice to leave a dream job in Washington to return to her family and academic career and outlined the obstacles women face in the workplace, immediately sparked intense national debate, and became one of the most-read pieces in the magazine’s history.

Since that time, Anne-Marie Slaughter has re-examined and broken free of her long-standing assumptions about work, life, and family. The feminist movement has stalled, and though many solutions have been proposed for how women can continue to break the glass ceiling or rise above the “motherhood penalty,” no solution yet has been able to unite all women.

Now, in Unfinished Business, Anne-Marie Slaughter pushes further, presenting a new vision for what true equality between men and women really means, and how we can get there. Slaughter takes a hard look at our reflexive beliefs, the “half-truths” we tell ourselves that are holding women back. Then she reveals the missing piece of the puzzle, a new focus that can reunite the women’s movement and provide a common banner under which both men and women can advance and thrive.

With practical individual solutions, compelling stories, and a broad outline for change, Anne-Marie Slaughter presents a future in which all of us, men and women alike, can finally have fulfilling careers along with the rewards of family life.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the current president and CEO of New America. She is the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and the former dean of its Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointed her as director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department from January 2009 until February 2011; she was the first woman to hold that job. A foreign policy analyst, academic, and public commentator, she has taught at the University of Chicago Law School and Harvard University Law School, and is a former president of the American Society of International Law.