There was a time when women were told they couldn’t have it all – that it was impossible to have a successful career, marriage and family – let alone throw in volunteer work and actually be happy and fulfilled.
In the 1987 film “Baby Boom,” Diane Keaton plays J.C. Wiatt, an over-the-top New York City workaholic career woman who is all about business. With a high-profile job as a management consultant, she lives with her similarly career-minded boyfriend. Theirs is a life of work, work, work and no time for anything, especially the toddler J.C. “inherits” from a deceased cousin she hadn’t seen in years. After being handed the baby, she says, “I can’t have a baby because I have a 12:30 lunch meeting.”
J.C. starts to warm up to the baby as she desperately tries to juggle new motherhood and her demanding job. After being turned down for a promotion, her boss says, “I told you you can’t have it all.”
Don’t ever tell a woman she can’t … because she can. J.C. ends up with her own thriving business, a loving child and she gets the man, proving that yes, women (on the silver screen anyway) can do it all and have it all.
In real life, today’s women don’t have to be crazed and frantic in business or in their daily family lives. By all appearances, the six women featured on our cover have it all. Each woman is as career-minded as she is family-minded, and each is determined to leave the world a better place. As they each leave a mark on business, they believe it’s important to leave a mark in the Jewish community as well as the community at large by volunteering some of their precious free time.
Our cover story women have a lot to say and to do. They are not stopping anytime soon. As a matter of fact, they are just getting started.
