As author and editor Slaughter has worked on eight books, including "A New World Order" (2004); "The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World" (2007); "Unfinished Business: Women, Men, Work, Family" (2015); "The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Dangerous World" (2017), as well as many scholarly articles. She revived a national debate over gender equality in the 21st century in an article in "The Atlantic" titled "Why Women Still Can't Have it All". Slaughter is on the Global Advisory Board for Oxford University's journal on "Global Summitry: Politics, Economics, and Law in International Governance."