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"  Go ahead and add this piece in the New York Times to the Annals Of &amp;quot;Having It All&amp;quot; Literally Not Existing. There are many things that you can have all of \u2014 Channing Tatum memorabilia, Chicken Nuggets, your sanity \u2014 but we need to stop perpetuating the female myth of &amp;quot;having it all,&amp;quot; a phrase used so often this past year that it&amp;#039;s completely lost its meaning.  About half of American moms work full-time, but only a quarter of the women with children under the age of 18 admitted that they would still want to work full-time if they had the financial resources to support themselves and their kids without it. And, thanks to what one can assume is residual Mad Men-era problems, these women are trepidatious to ask their supervisors to accommodate their responsibilities at home with adjustments like more flexible hours or the ability to work remotely. In other words, we&amp;#039;re worried our bosses are going to Marissa Mayer us.  Only 37 percent of all working women, with or without children, are looking to climb the ranks at work, which contrasts sharply with the Lean In ethos currently sweeping America \u2014 and that&amp;#039;s fine. In fact, the working mom friends in the piece have a book club that&amp;#039;s not unlike Sandberg&amp;#039;s concept of Lean In circles \u2014 after discussing the latest book over wine and snacks, the women share tips and advice about how they&amp;#039;re negotiating with their employers in the hopes of better balancing their work and home lives (e.g. working from home on Fridays). And here I thought those book clubs always ended up with one lady who drank a whole bottle of vinho verde and started telling the others that her husband&amp;#039;s penis was shaped weird! This is way more constructive. Follow Anna on Twitter. Images via Getty "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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