--- title: PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi on Why Women Can't Have It All description: The biological clock and the career clock conflict canonical: https://time.com/2954893/pepsico-ceo-women-cant-have-it-all/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-03T19:42:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:36.141Z og:title: PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi on Why Women Can't Have It All og:description: The biological clock and the career clock conflict og:url: https://time.com/2954893/pepsico-ceo-women-cant-have-it-all/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: PepsiCo CEO Indra K. 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We cannot have it all.” She did say, however, that women can learn to cope with that reality. “If you ask our daughters, I’m not sure that they will say I’ve been a good mom,” she continued. She told a story about how she could not make it to the coffee meeting where moms would come to school with their children at 9 a.m. every Wednesday at her daughter’s school. Nooyi’s daughter would come home and criticize her for not being able to attend. Nooyi called the school to find out what other mothers were absent so she would feel reassured that other working moms also couldn’t make the meetings. “You have to cope because you die with guilt,” she said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2954893/pepsico-ceo-women-cant-have-it-all/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2954893/pepsico-ceo-women-cant-have-it-all/"},"headline":"PepsiCo CEO: Women Cannot Have It All","datePublished":"2014-07-03T19:42:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:36.141Z","description":"Surprisingly frank statements from Indra K. 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