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There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't lean in.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

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Anne-Marie Slaughter
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 27
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Charlottesville
Virginia
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