This "multi-tasking" crap is...crap! [View All]

[Raven]

OK, time to expose this lie. I was a single parent. I raised a kid. I ran a City of 90,000, went to law school nights, practiced law in a big firm and had my own law firm. There is no such thing as "multi-tasking". There is such a thing as doing 5 things at once and not doing any of them as well as you would like to. There is such a thing as having to put what should be your first priority in second or third place to take care of the debris you have accumulated in your life. There is nothing pretty, sexy or smart about multi-tasking. For most women, it is a necessity and not one that they would choose if they had a choice.

Now I know things have changed in recent years but the men I have known did not multi-task. They didn't have to. The women in their lives...wives, secretaries...multi-tasked for them so that they could concentrate on their careers...their careers, not their families.

This adoration of multi-tasking is pure sexist bunk. Designed to keep women so scattered, preoccupied and exhausted that they will not achieve their potential.

I am a retired Queen of multi-tasking and I can tell you that whatever I achieved, whether it was raising a decent kid or having a decent career, was pure luck. Ask any young female associate in a law firm today who has or wants a family. She'll describe the double standard.