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Article: Chicago Tribune Workplace Notebook Column.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- May 29, 2002
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Byline: T. Shawn Taylor
May 29--Lisa Concepcion Giassa is married but doesn't want children. She says women who try to have it all--a career and a family--shortchange both, burden colleagues, then want a pat on the back.
"`Look at me,'" she said in a mocking sing-song, "`I'm mother, I'm worker.'
"I don't feel any sympathy toward them at all. Why should it matter to me if they feel stressed out?" asked Giassa, 31, of Bogota, N.J., who, oddly enough, does public relations at Prentice Hall Press for books about parenting and work issues.
"I don't think they get special privileges, I know they do. They come in at 10 and leave at 2. Try to ...