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It appears that for women, it’s usually one or the other. Either be a star in the corporate world, and be a power broker at that, and see their homemaking fail, maybe a divorced family, unruly or underperforming kids, a broken home of sorts. Or on the other hand, women can choose to have a great homemaking role, that is have children that are well adjusted, brought up well, a well knit family basically, and conversely, forfeit their talents and passions in the office, or just hold a low level job that doesn’t correspond to their talents and abilties. In a pervious article, I addressed how much value is housework worth, and in this article, I’m attempting to find out if indeed women can secure both, a great corporate job that utilizes all their talents and passions, and being a homemaker so they raise up a great family.

There are various schools of thought on how women can excel in the workplace. One of them is that they lean into male corporate spaces, that is they attempt and fit into the boys club, which only works to a certain extent. This is because women have been known to have a certain way they lead, for instance, they are more collaborative and less aggressive, a trait that would be viewed as a weakness in a man. Former Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg says in her book Lean In that women should lean into male spaces and have a seat at the table, but does this really work? Don’t women have their own unique set of talents and way of work which if we’ll captured will lead to the glory of the company in more ways than one? Granted, there are few female CEOs at the top, even as women outperform men in high school and college, which just shows that there is still a glass ceiling on women that even though they could be the smartest person in the room, they still won’t get that CEO corner office position. Can you think that a woman as qualified as Hillary Clinton didn’t get the US Presidency, in what she would say that even though she had lost, but that the glass ceiling on women had a million cracks on it.

We could have more remote working to make women both secure the corporate as well as homemaking bag. Even though it was the norm during the COVID days, many bosses are demanding an in person working atmosphere fearing that remote working gives far less results. Nevertheless, right now, about 16 percent of the world’s workforce is fully remote, and it will only increase with time. Then, we could adopt a four day work week, something a lot of socialists have been calling for. This will allow more women to plan well for tasks at home so they can raise their family well. And not just that, let’s reduce a typical day at work to be from 9AM to 3PM, so more women can have a better work life balance. The French have such a working model but they are characterized as lazy, and this needs to stop.