Clarification — No one was implying that all work is bad. Even 80 hour per week jobs are great for some people who don’t mind the sacrifices that it takes on a personal life. (Hirshman is right. To make it to the most elite jobs, you have to plan things accordingly.) We were rebelling against the idea put forth by Linda Hirshman that highly educated women should pursue 80 hour per week jobs or else they were letting down the movement.

Which segues nicely into a point that my husband asked that I make. He felt that men want to be liberated from the pressure to assume the breadwinning role. Most guys want the choice, too. Another way to change the gender imbalance at the top levels of business and law is to recruit more men to work at home. Time to jump start that slacker movement.