Categories: social science

Can Women Have It All?

With Kay Hymowitz

Since Ann-Marie Slaughter’s much debated article in The Atlantic last year, it’s been a debate raging across all corners of the Internet. What’s the role of women in today’s society? Can they have both the high-powered career and the pleasant family life? We talk about it with Kay Hymowitz, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of an excellent article on the topic in the latest edition of Foreign Policy magazine.

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Jonathan Last: What To Expect When No One’s Expecting

With Jonathan Last

We’ve been told over the years that the world, and America, is becoming overcrowded. But more recently, it’s been proven that those guesses were quite wrong, and in fact, U.S. population is on the verge of shrinking. Jonathan Last, author of What to Expect When No One’s Expecting, says that the danger we face isn’t overpopulation, but underpopulation. Without a growing population, we confront a drastic change in our culture, politics and society. The trend will be hard to reverse.

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