The first of these half-truths is that “men can’t have it all, either.” This half-truth is meant to disarm the women and their allies battling for gender equality. And in some ways, it is true. Men who take advantage of parental leave, for example, might be stigmatized and find they have forfeited real advancement in the firm. However, to declare that men and women have faced the same problems in juggling firm and family would be, in Slaughter’s terms, “revisionist history.” The cultural barriers that women have faced have been much more challenging for women who want to balance a career and a family than they have been for men.