Arianna Huffington: The New Feminist Issue Is ‘Getting Enough Sleep’

Arianna Huffington’s New Rules for Women: Less Leaning, More Sleeping (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Because I’m a young woman—and I have a job—I have a habit of reading articles about the sad, unbalanced work-vs.-home life that is my inevitable future. I can’t help it. Give me a story titled “Feminism Has Made Women Less Happy,” and I’ll click on it faster than a BuzzFeed list about baby pandas. But to be honest, these articles and the cultural discussions they inspire are rarely helpful. In most cases all they do is freak me out.

First, I learned that I can’t have it all. Then I read that I can have it all, I just have to lean in to get it. But when I lean in, everyone thinks I’m bossy. If I marry and have kids, should one of us lean in while the other leans out? But which one of us leans which way? I honestly don’t know. Reading think piece after think piece is the sociological equivalent of the time I searched “upset stomach” on WebMD and spent three days convinced I had pancreatitis.