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Just search new here. Welcome to the HBR Idea Cash from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green Carmichael. Today I'm

talking with Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of New America and the author of

the new book Unfinished Business Women, Men, men, work family.

And Marie, thank you so much for talking with us today.

My pleasure.

So I want to focus a little bit on the work segment of the book,

since that is sort of what we do here at

HPR and in the book I was so excited to see that you cited a study that I am

proud to say that we also covered and that was by three professors who studied a consulting firm that thought they had a problem with women employees and work life balance and what the professors found was that actually all employees felt like there was not enough work life balance and men and women

were leaving equally because of the problems of overwork at this firm and yet the

consulting firm didn't believe it so I am wondering why even in the face of evidence do we still see

issues of work in life and issues with overwork as a woman's problem when in fact it

affects everybody it's such a good question and that particular study is you know with a

firm that operates on data and prides itself on evidence but when presented with

evidence that men and women are leaving equally they can't

accept it.

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