CEO: You can’t have it all

The discussion hasn’t stopped since Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” in the Atlantic two years ago. We just can’t stop asking: Can women have successful careers and families at the same time?

PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi’s answer cuts to the quick: “I don’t think women can have it all. I just don’t think so. We pretend we have it all. We pretend we can have it all.”

Check out the transcript and video of Nooyi’s answer to the persistent “having it all question” that she gave June 30 when she spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival.

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