Does anyone have a New Yorker subscription? Has anyone read the Tina Fey thing on "juggling" and can share?
The abstract makes me really want to read it:
ABSTRACT: PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer?s dilemmas as a working mother. The writer?s daughter recently checked out a book from the preschool library called ?My Working Mom,? which depicted a witch mother who was very busy and had to fly away to a lot of meetings. The two men who wrote this book probably had the best intentions, but the topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield. What is the rudest question you can ask a woman? ?How old are you?? ?What do you weigh?? No, the worst question is: ?How do you juggle it all?? The second-worst question is: ?Are you going to have more kids?? Science show that fertility and movie offers drop off steeply for women after forty. The baby-versus-work life questions keep the writer up at night. She has observed that women, at least in comedy, are labeled ?crazy? after a certain age. The writer has the suspicion that the definition of ?crazy? in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore. The fastest remedy for this ?women are crazy? situation is for more women to become producers and hire diverse women of various ages. That is why the writer feels obligated to stay in the business, and that is why she can?t possibly take time off for a second baby, unless she does, in which case that is nobody?s business. Does the writer want to have another baby? Or does she just want to turn back time and have her daughter be a baby again? That night, as she was putting the witch book in her daughter?s backpack to be returned to school, the writer asked her, ?Did you pick this book because your mommy works? Did it make you feel better about it?? Her daughter looked at her matter-of-factly and said, ?Mommy, I can?t read. I thought it was a Halloween book.?
Read more www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_fey#ixzz1DGnREoVp