Marissa Mayer and the great “have-it-all” women debate

Marissa Mayer, former employee no. 20 at Google and first female engineer, who lead the design of Gmail, Google search home page, blah blah, and who has been appointed CEO for Yahoo, seems to be everywhere in the tech and women-related (?) media.

You see, the crazy thing is that she’s 6 months pregnant. And she said she would only take 2 weeks of maternity leave.

So I don’t know why, but, setting aside all the tech talk about how fantastic she is as an engineer/manager/innovator, some articles are floating out of the dark waters, about her status as a pregnant woman at the head of a mega-company.

Why Women Still Can't Have It All

A piece that stirred a lot of debate and discussion. Another piece of thought to add to my own path, along with meeting Christine Lagarde the other day at Keio University.