Are you a deputy parent? Why successful career women need a partner who's the boss at home | London

Posted by Gladis Harcrow on Monday, June 10, 2024

Climbing to the top of your industry, while also having a family (and perhaps a social life), cannot be done alone — as male CEOs have known since the first board meeting was called. Now more successful female Londoners are admitting that they have only been able to achieve as much as they have because they are deputy parents, taking a backseat while their partners or another support network step up to what Slaughter’s husband, a professor at Princeton, calls “the frontlines of everyday life”.

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