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Choices & changes.(2 Progress and obstacles: Professional & managerial women in the workplace)
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Regional Review
- Article date:
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January 1, 2005
- Author:
- Jacobsen, Joyce P.
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WHEN I THINK OF the women who started college with me at Harvard 25 years ago, I would have been hard-put to accurately predict who would work full-time continuously, who would work intermittently or part-time while their children were young, and who would drop out of the labor force completely while in their child-raising years. My three college roommates and I have among us a PhD, a JD, an MD, and a CFA; four marriages and one divorce; seven children and four stepchildren--and we all have worked full-time continuously. Yet a glance through my twentieth reunion book shows that while our family histories are not unusual, our work histories are. Many of my women classmates are ...