Women at work: 'Forget the balance. This is the merge' Silicon Valley is figuring out the single most vexing problem for ambitious working women: how to spend time with their children without ruining their careers. In an extract from the book The End Of Men, female executives at Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo reveal how they make it work About this article Women at work: 'Forget the balance. This is the merge' This article was published on guardian.co.uk at 17.59 EDT on Friday 5 October 2012 . A version appeared on p54 of the Weekend section of the Guardian on Friday 5 October 2012 . It was last modified at 19.00 EDT on Friday 5 October 2012 . It was first published at 18.01 EDT on Friday 5 October 2012 . There is a reason these women are working for the companies rather than inventing them because in reality success equal hard work and ability not just one of these things, flexible working or not/. Part timers in history have achieved feck all major for a reason, single minded workaholics have achieved nearly everything for a reason. Many of these women aren't seeing their kids (ie not having it all) or are benefiting from positive discrimination not because women need it because anybody who doesn't give 100% of their time to something needs additional help to reach the top. Be quiet and pay attention, serfs. The powerful are talking importantly amongst themselves and you are being allowed to listen, you ungrateful