more Linda Hirshman love

Josh: Speaking as someone whose friend works/ed in Silda [Wall]'s office, she used both the AG role and especially the first lady role
to be very active and do a lot.

That article is bullshit. Is Linda Hirshman saying that she was dependent, and that was the problem?

Amy: No, the problem is not that Silda Wall neutered herself somehow,
but that she did the best she could with the options provided to women with ambitious husbands. So she can be commended for that, but it's not a substitute for actually changing a system in which wives sublimate their successful careers and ambitions for their children and husband's careers
It's a case of induction, not a critical profile

Josh: Hmm. I'm just not willing to give up on first lady careers as successful careers.

Amy: I'd buy that if there were equal precedent for first gentleman careers
and if guys got patted on the back for organizing uncontroversial charities
when they'd previously, like, managed acquisitions for Bloomberg.

This is the lie we tell ourselves, if a woman has accomplishments outside the field of paid work, that those are equal in stature to accomplishments within paid work.