Comment: Women can take it all

June 30, p. 6

I was led to believe that if I wanted a good career I would have to settle for a not-so-good family life, and that if I wanted a good family life then I would have to settle for a mediocre career. But I recently discovered I can actually have both. I believe the stumbling block to achieving what I want was the idea that women can’t have it all.

I have been reading the work of motivators and what I have come to understand from them is that anything I really dream of or wish for can become a reality.

There is no question about whether I will be willing to work hard for it because I will. (By Carolyn Baytion-Sunaryo, Jakarta)

Your comments:

Although my parents were married till the end (my dad died five years ago), they never had any differences regarding who was at fault, or responsible for our education and good manners, for example.

I grew up spending more time with my dad than my mom, but both had equal rights and responsibilities regarding our care, from changing diapers to attending school performance.

And neither me, nor my siblings are juvenile delinquents or anything alike. And we come from a little country in South America.

Soekarnoputri
Jakarta