Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson Wants to Make Climate Action Profitable How One Activist Stopped Ghana From Building Its First Coal Power PlantĪn Indigenous Rights Leader Is Trying to Rewrite Chile’s Constitution to Put its Ecosystems Firstįormer U.S. John Kerry Is Bringing America Back Into the Climate Fight How could someone who’s responsible for at least one small, vulnerable human-responsible in a real way, not in a ’50s-dad way-ever be fully present when that child is out of earshot? The problem isn’t that people can’t help but bring their whole lives to the office it’s that workplaces fail to accommodate those lives. So if I am excelling at one thing, something else is falling off. “The idea of pretending that we have no other life is some sort of fantasy out of the 1950s, where the little lady stayed at home.
“I don’t think anybody who has kids is fully present at work,” she tells me, speaking as quickly as one of her hypercommunicative characters, but with a deliberateness that suggests she’s already processed these thoughts. I don’t need to have kids myself to sense that she’s onto something, and I can see her mentally racing toward a more incisive read. We’re in the sitting room of a midtown Manhattan hotel suite that, with its tasteful cream-and-wood decor, feels like the natural habitat of Rhimes’ elegant Scandal heroine, Olivia Pope. “But I’m not fully present at work,” Rhimes, who is TV’s highest-paid and, arguably, most successful showrunner, as well as a single mother of three daughters, interjects.
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I’ve been waxing indignant about the professional world’s unfair assumption that employees with kids are not fully present at work. Shonda Rhimes and I are deep into a conversation about what makes a healthy work environment when she has to stop me from saying something ridiculous. Shonda Rhimes Already Knows What You're Going to Watch Next This week in TIME Magazine's World edition:TIME Magazine