Despite all the progress that women had made to become accepted in the workplace, despite growing efforts by companies to create conditions where women could marry, have children and still have careers, despite the overwhelming number of husbands who were ready to share the housework and child-caring duties, women, Slaughter concluded, still had to choose, at some point in their lives, between career and family. In 2012, Slaughter wrote an article in The Atlantic explaining why this was so, using her own experiences as a launching point.