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 »
I long for a land that does not yet exist, a place where women are valued both for their intellects and their motherhood and where... choices between career and nurturing are somehow less stark.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The knowledge that for women in middle adulthood, multiple roles can tie in with well-being should help younger women who are stru...ggling with the pressures of small children and a job, and who may be tempted to abandon or severely curtail their career goals.... The woman who manages to hang onto her career may be in for some stress in her younger years when the pulls and tugs of family and career can be intense, but if she can persist, her chances for much smoother sailing in her mature years seem very good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do s...o--concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A requirement of femininity is that a woman devote her life to love--to mother love, to romantic love, to religious love, to amorp...hous, undifferentiated caring. The territory of the heart is admittedly a province that is open to all, but women alone are expected to make an obsessional career of its exploration, to find whatever adventure, power, fulfillment or tragedy life has to offer within its bounds. There is no question that a woman is apt to feel more feminine, more confident of her interior gender makeup, when she is reliably within some stage of love--even the girlish crush or the stage of unrequited love or a broken heart. Men have suffered for love, and men have accomplished great feats in the name of love, but what man has ever felt at the top of his masculine form when he is lovesick or suffering from heartache?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resour...ces of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Work-family conflicts--the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child--would not be forced upon women with such... sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I c...annot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not a suffragist, nor do I believe in "careers" for women, especially a "career" in factory and mill where most working women... have their "careers." A great responsibility rests upon woman--the training of children. This is her most beautiful task.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child-rearing years are relatively short in our increased life span. It is hard for young women caught between diapers and for...mulas to believe, but there are years and years of freedom ahead. I regret my impatience to get on with my career. I wish I'd relaxed, allowed myself the luxury of watching the world through my little girl's eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »