JEWISH JOURNAL
Israeli women: Lean in, or can’t have it all?
by Eliana Rudee
March 4, 2016

Rashi Elmaliah, a chief thinker at Seital Marketing, said she was “closing deals in between contractions” when she was giving birth. Devora Mason, a manager of Voiceitt and single mom of five children, brought one of her boys to her panel lecture, maintaining, “if you ask me whether or not I can have it all before or after 8 p.m., the answer would be very different.” Aliza Levitt-Gillman, a cognitive behavioral therapist, had her husband take parental leave and changed home conversations from, “How will I deal with this?” to “How will we deal with this?” Leemor Machnai, owner of Machnai Weiss & Parenters Ltd., had to sit at a management table five times until the men around it listened to her. These are just some of the things that women do in order to “lean in” to positions of power while many attempt to “have it all” with family life as well. READ MORE