Some of the smartest women in the country said that they're too embarrassed to attend their reunions at Harvard Business School if... they have dropped out of the work force, left the fast track by choosing part-time work, or decided to follow anything other than the standard male career path.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many women are surprised by the intensity of their maternal pull and the conflict it brings to their competing roles. This is the ...precise point at which many women feel the stress of the work/family dilemma most keenly. They realize that they may have a price to pay for wanting to be both professionals and mothers. They feel guilty for not being at work, and angry for being manipulated into feeling this guilt. . . . They don't quite fit at home. They don't quite fit at work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first full-fledged generation of women in the professions did not talk about their overbooked agenda or the toll it took on th...em and their families. They knew that their position in the office was shaky at best. . . . If they suffered self-doubt or frustration . . . they blamed themselves--either for expecting too much or for doing too little.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The myth of superwoman has hung on long after the media stopped airing fantasy-based commercials about working women's lives: Here... she comes, home from the office after 12 hours of high-powered negotiations in the executive suite. Her designer suit is still fresh and unwrinkled, her face radiant and unlined as she opens her arms to greet her two adorable children--and sends a seductive glance toward her handsome husband, beaming proudly in the background. Watch her as, with one smooth motion, she slips off her jacket and into a dainty apron as she glides toward the spotless kitchen to create a three-course meal for her beloved family. After dinner she will check the children's French homework and read them a chapter of Jane Eyre before tucking the little cherubs into bed. While her husband watches the late-night news, she will disappear into the den to make an overseas call that will clinch a multinational deal for her company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No one--man or woman--can have it all without support from the workplace and genuine help at home. Women, regardless of how they h...ave chosen to lead their lives, can now breathe a collective sigh of relief that superwoman is dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Realistic about how much one person can accomplish in a given day, women expect to have to make some trade-offs between work and f...amily. Families, however, have absorbed all the stress and strain they possibly can. The entire responsibility for accommodation is taking place on the home side of the equation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »