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Why PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi Can't Have It All

The Atlantic

Sheryl Sandberg may have claimed one of the catchiest titles of the decade for a whither-women book — Lean In — but Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi has a pretty good one too, if she ever wants to go there: Her book could be called We’re Screwed, which is a memorable line from a memorable Q&A with the owner of The Atlantic, David Bradley, before an audience at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Just as women in the corporate world are entering management, in many cases their parents are becoming needy elders, their kids are growing into needy adolescents, and with midlife bearing down, their husbands are often reverting into needy teenagers, she says. “So we’re screwed…we cannot have it all.”