It will look at what happens to men who pitch in and take responsibility for their children. It will include some embarrassing disclosures about things Annabel Crabb has done to make life work in a busy career with three children. It will look at some research about flexibility in the workplace it will look at statistics about childlessness and correlation to financial success for women and men. This book is full of stories from the author's work in and around politics and media, and involves anecdotes about high-profile women-and men. But what about the men? Shouldn't the fight for workplace flexibility extend to men as well? And then perhaps it wouldn't be seen as such an anomaly to see a man in a part-time role so he can spend more time with the kids? Clich but true: kids need their fathers, too. Sometimes as women we spend too much time thinking about flexibility from only one perspective-ours. This book is not a shout of rage, but it is asking us to sit up and listen. And it's awfully hard to interest a bloke in a gig like that. Why? Because if you want to combine kids with an elite career, the first thing you need (if you're going to have the best possible shot at it) is a stay-at-home spouse. Male politicians who reach their 40s without having children are so rare as to be remarkable, but politics is full of women who are childless.
"Why can't I have a wife?" It's a common joke among busy women. And yet this asset keeps their lives turning over more efficiently than an accommodating accountant or the most obliging of personal assistants. The greatest asset male executives, politicians, and sportspeople have enjoyed throughout centuries of success is one that never appears on balance sheets or tax returns.
Either that, or working like a lunatic whilst being plagued by personal guilt on one hand and the covert critique of other mothers on the other. It's because for women, the opportunity to work at those elite levels usually means opting out of having a family. But the answer is so shriekingly obvious, and yet hardly anybody ever acknowledges it. all valuable devices, and yet still we agonize over why women aren't better represented in the boardrooms and ministries of this country. Affirmative action, support schemes, paid maternity leave. For decades, feminism has argued the case for getting women into the workplace.
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