In this essay, Winston & Strawn partner LeElle Slifer makes the argument for why work-life balance is a fallacy and provides an alternative perspective for working mothers to consider.
“The problem doesn’t lie with how much we have to do but rather with how we frame the problem itself,” Slifer writes. “Time to dispense with that masochistic construct of ‘balance.’ Instead, we strive for excellence in our personal pursuits just as we do in our careers, expanding our ambitions rather than balancing them. I want to be as good of a wife and mother as I am a lawyer, so life gets slotted in right alongside work.”