Why Women Still Can't have it all

If I put Roger Federer's name in my post I would get more hits than posting the name Serena Williams. Society tends to reward champions who are men. Federer gets more coverage because his family is depending on his success. Williams is just for show of bosoms and colorful underwear, she has no family depending on her success. So it is not a surprise to read an article, like Why Women Still Can't Have It All. Society is not trying to support women success, especially when they believe women are needed to support men and raise their families. Society wants to encourage men to reach high level of success not women. Inspite of this, women do success and some like Williams reach a high level of success. But that does not mean because Williams stand out she will be afforded the same media coverage as her male counterpart. Even those her work on the court is more record breaking than Federer, but he has the numbers 20-14 Wimbledon Grand Slams.

In the article, women who have children have even greater difficulty,

[t]he discipline, organization, and sheer endurance it takes to succeed at top levels with young children at home is easily comparable to running 20 to 40 miles a week. But that’s rarely how employers see things, not only when making allowances, but when making promotions. Perhaps because people choose to have children? People also choose to run marathons.

So just imagine if Williams had children. Williams career would probabl be over, but Feder does not have that to worr about. Feder only has to find a wife. Williams biological clock is ticking, folks expecting her not to be able to carry on with her tennis career. Because having children does not keep you in the spotlights or help with selling products, unless you are married to a superstar. So what the article is requesting is that the fact that women do have children and not men, give them, "flexible working hours, investment intervals, and family-comes-first management. But what about the real world? Most American women cannot demand these things, particularly in a bad economy, and their employers have little incentive to grant them voluntarily. Indeed, the most frequent reaction I get in putting forth these ideas is that when the choice is whether to hire a man who will work whenever and wherever needed, or a woman who needs more flexibility, choosing the man will add more value to the company." In Italy a woman and a man is given certain work benefit based on the family situation. Don't we in America say we value family or saying it sounds good. It is not that women can not have it all, it is that the rules are different for women.