Princeton University
Anne Marie Slaughter is a professor of international studies at Princeton University. She is the author of Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family and The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World. Slaughter served as director of policy planning for the Obama State Department.
'Unfinished Business' Anne-Marie Slaughter provoked a national conversation about feminism when she decided to leave her high-powered position at the State Department to care for her family. A year after her departure, she wrote the most read article in the history of The Atlantic, titled “ Why Women Still Can’t Have It All .” Madeleine speaks to Slaughter about her latest work, Unfinished Business.
Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Unfinished Business Anne-Marie Slaughter provoked a national conversation about feminism when she decided to leave her high-powered position at the State Department to care for her family. A year after her departure, she wrote the most read article in the history of The Atlantic , titled “ Why Women Still Can’t Have It All .”
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