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Two speakers debate whether women can balance career and family, arguing that prioritizing relationships in your 20s improves marriage prospects, while re-entering the workforce later becomes harder.
Two speakers debate whether women can balance career and family, arguing that prioritizing relationships in your 20s improves marriage prospects, while re-entering the workforce later becomes harder.
What's wrong is the idea that women can have it all.
There's women I've dated in the past, worked really hard, have a great job, but mid-30s now, and they're lamenting the fact that they're not in relationship, not married, no kids. Again, trade-offs. I don't think there's any right or wrong here. I think it's just—
What's wrong is the idea that women can have it all, because nobody can have it all. Like we've just been saying, everything involves a trade-off. And it is possible for women to have the professional identity and to be mothers and wives. They might have difficulty doing both simultaneously, in which case I think it might make sense for them to prioritize the relationship first. Because when they're in their 20s, that's when they're going to be most attractive to the men that they most would want to potentially marry and have children with. And if by the time they're 32, they feel like they've missed out on the opportunity to be an employee, they can go into the job market, but it's much harder the other way around.
