by Samantha Ettus

Leaving your family before dawn on Monday and returning home late Friday to be there for short weekends is not the reality for most working moms.  Anne-Marie Slaughter’s piece in The Atlantic describes a life in the White House that is most akin to a tour of duty in the military. Would we listen to a soldier who just returned from Iraq tell us that there is no such thing as work life balance?It would be insane.

Slaughter irresponsibly uses her personal extreme to evaluate working motherhood as a whole.

In Olympic gymnastics or ice skating we “throw out” the high score and the low score because they are thought to represent the extremes of more on Forbes…