Fantastic post by Charli Carpenter about Michele Obama’s decision to not take on a political position as First Lady.

The fact that people have assumed that Michelle would take on a formal
political role as first lady only underscores how normative women’s
political participation is today. Her unwillingness to prioritize that over her duties to her children is not a step backward but a step forward
for the feminist movement: what Michelle is modeling is not
indifference to politics, but policy attention to work-life balance,
the missing element in the first feminist revolution. As the same
news-article relates:

She also says she hopes to focus ways
women maintain a work-family balance and the needs of military
families, and she could act as an informal adviser to her husband as
she has been during the campaign.

Please read the whole thing. Lots of good links there, too.