Yahoo!'s new female CEO Marissa Mayer spoke out for the first time about juggling the demands of tending to Yahoo! and a baby. But she made it all sound easy -- should she have?
Marissa Mayer, I think it's terrific that you took on the incredibly
demanding job of CEO of Yahoo! especially when you were six months pregnant.
Appearing To Be Super Woman
At 37, you are an inspiring role model for all young, working women. But when you gave your first interview since giving
birth to your first child, son Macallister Bogue, on Sept. 30, you spoke out in a way that likely made the hearts of many working moms drop. It certainly wasn't intentional, but I think Marissa, in trying to be totally positive about your job, company and motherhood in general,
you minimized the parenting demands you're under. "I knew that the job would be hard, and I know that the baby would be fun," she told an audience at
FORTUNE magazine's Most Powerful Women dinner in Palo Alto, California on Nov. 27. "And the thing that surprised me, and really puzzlingly so, is that the job is really fun! Yahoo! is a really fun place to work," she explained. But then
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