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Anne-Marie Slaughter

Foreign Policy Expert
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Biography

Say the name "Anne-Marie Slaughter" and you’re certain to launch a conversation beset with phrases such as "gender equality," "work-family balance," and the ever-so provocative "having it all."

After a two-year stint as director of policy planning for the US State Department, Dr. Slaughter - the first woman to hold that position - turned down a possible promotion in order to return home to Princeton and be with her family, which included two adolescent sons in dire need of their mother. She then published "Why Women Still Can’t Have It All" in The Atlantic, an eloquent and controversial article on the difficulties women face in juggling a home-life while ascending to top positions in their respective fields. A passionate plea for providing women more flexibility to "stay in the game" even after they may have deferred a dream job because of their families, "Why Women Still Can’t Have It All" ignited a global debate that profoundly touched all men and women.

Dr. Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 university professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. As of September 1, 2013, she will take on the role of president of the New America Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States. Upon leaving the State Department in 2011, she received the Secretary's Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor conferred by the State Department, for her work leading the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review. She also received a Meritorious Honor Award from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and a Joint Civilian Service Commendation Award from the Supreme Allied Commander for Europe.

A passionate and eloquent speaker, Anne-Marie Slaughter addresses foreign policy issues as expertly as gender disparity. Her diverse experiences as a State Department official, professor and dean, and mother - as well as her background in law and foreign policy - lend her a unique and versatile voice that unfailingly captivates her audiences.

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Topics

The Coming Work/Family Revolution

In this engaging presentation, speaker Anne-Marie Slaughter discusses the many responses to her world-famous Atlantic Monthly article, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All": the positive, the negative, and the unexpected. She discusses the underlying issues that are driving the "having it all" debate, the many solutions that are already on the horizon, and the steps we all need to take to bring about what will be a revolution not only with regard to the future of work and family, but the future of work itself. This presentation offers an uplifting message on how drastic improvements for both sexes in the workforce are within our grasp.

The Big Picture: Beyond Hot Spots & Crises in Our Interconnected World

It's not just our perception; it's really true: the world of foreign policy today is much more complicated and harder to prioritize than it was in the Cold War. If we define "problems we must pay attention to" by the criterion "things that can kill or seriously alter the quality of life for millions of Americans," we still come up with a list of seven to eight issues, from the proliferation of nuclear weapons to the spread of violent extremism to conflict in the Middle East to global pandemics and climate change. Underlying this complexity is the addition of hundreds of thousands if not millions of actors to the global stage – "non-state actors" ranging from terrorist and global criminal networks to foundations, corporations, and NGOs. Those different social actors now intersect with the different agencies and parts of over 150 governments in regions around the world. In this networked world, we need to construct counter-networks that can respond and adapt within complex systems. The good news is that this is a foreign policy with a role for many more players than during the Cold War; this talk not only describes and analyzes that world, but explains how different corporations, foundations, universities, civic groups, and the like can play their part.

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