In its long feature story about a powerful female Wall Street exec who was unceremoniously fired from her post at Morgan Stanley last year, New York Magazine tangentially noted that while this exec, Zoë Cruz, was climbing the corporate ladder, she had three kids – even got up early in the wee hours of the morning to bake cookies for her kids’ classes – but rarely mentioned her children when she was at work and opposed flex-time arrangements for parents.

“She was one of those amazing women who seemed to be ‘doing it all,’” the New York Magazine article said of Cruz. “But she didn’t want to advertise herself that way. There would be no appearances on Oprah or articles in women’s magazines. ‘No, my family comes first,’ she told one female colleague. ‘And I will not subject anybody to this. I love my job, but I’m not here to broadcast it.’”

Over on the Wall Street Journal’s blog, The Juggle, there’s a vigorous debate in the comments section about Cruz’s portrayal in the article and about her life choices. Juggle blogger Sara Schaefer Munoz mused, “. . . [P]erhaps for women on Wall Street or in traditionally male-dominated fields, playing down mommy status is still the best way to go — along with hard work and competence, of course — to rise through the ranks.” (May 2008)