Alphachimp Learning Systems LLC - Pop!Tech Art - Anne-Marie Slaughter

Tuesday

Jun262012

Anne-Marie Slaughter - Lego World

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at 6:56PM

Anne-Marie Slaughter shares her insights on the transformation of state and non-state actors. Whereas we used to exist within a world of nation-states, billiard balls knocking against one another, we now live in a network of modular, ad hoc organizations—both governmental and non-governmental.

Welcome to Lego World.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is one of the world’s most respected thought leaders in international relations. From 2009–2011 she served as the first female Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State. Upon leaving the State Department she received the Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor conferred by the State Department, for her work leading the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review. She also received a Meritorious Honor Award from the U.S.

Anne-Marie Slaughter shares her insights on the transformation of state and non-state actors. Whereas we used to exist within a world of nation-states, billiard balls knocking against one another, we now live in a network of modular, ad hoc organizations—both governmental and non-governmental. Welcome to Lego World.

Comments Off |

3 References |

tagged

gender,

politics in

Pop!Tech 2011

View Printer Friendly Version

Email Article to Friend

References (3)

References allow you to track sources for this article, as well as articles that were written in response to this article.

Source: The Secret Shame of the Working Mother

by HANNA ROSIN at The Atlantic on June 26, 2012

I remain, a week later, slightly baffled by the hostility to the Slaughter story. I figured the average woman writer would get to the end of it, shrug, and think, "Don't we know that already?" But instead the story -- and particularly the notion of "having it all" -- has been described as piggish, acquisitive, a misrepresentation of feminism, the equivalent in sophistication of a five-year-old's tantrum. Slaughter should have known that she was testing the goddesses when she took a job at the Wh
Source: PODCAST: The Impossible Juggling Act: Motherhood And Work

at NPR

[We assume] that the worker who works longest is most committed as opposed to valuing time management and efficiency at getting things done over the length of time. And second, [we assume] that that time has to be spent at the office.
Source: Why Women Still Can’t Have It All

by ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER at The Atlantic Magazine

It’s time to stop fooling ourselves, says a woman who left a position of power: the women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed. If we truly believe in equal opportunity for all women, here’s what has to change.