Accenture’s Survey Results for IWD2013

But we have tasted the freedom that technology offers (as well as the tethering – who checks email before even getting out of bed in the morning?  Come on…you know you’ve done it!). We carry multiple devices in our pockets that each cost hundreds of dollars. We have experienced going to the gym in the middle of the day or being able to visit a child’s school, making up the time at home and not having to take vacation time. The world is much more our oyster as we, especially as individualistic Americans, dictate our own time and strive for life balance. The question, then, is “can we have it all?”

This is a particularly interesting proposition when we look at Yahoo due to the fact that not only is Marissa Mayer a woman (duh – and awesome), but she was pregnant when she took her new role as CEO.  However, a majority of women will find themselves in a different situation because they cannot build a daycare for their child or call all the shots for thousands of employees.  Thus, particularly for this growing and influential sector of the workforce, flexibility is pretty paramount to job satisfaction and “having it all.”