Janice Lynch Schuster, Senior Writer and expert in end-of- life issues at the Altarum Institute, delivered this speech at the NOW Annual Convenvtion on June 30, 2012. It appears here in full with her permission. When I was 10, in the early 1970s, I wanted to be an altar girl. The parish priest actually said I could not: [...]

This post originally appeared in The Huffington Post and was written by Riane Eisler and Valerie Young Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic article “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” set off another firestorm about whether mothers can, or should, have careers. Some pitted Slaughter, who for family care reasons resigned as the first female director of [...]