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Paying the price: evidence on how family choices affect career outcomes.(working class women)

IN MAY 2004, Brenda Barnes reached the Holy Grail of the ambitious working woman. Seven years earlier, she had resigned her job as president and CEO of Pepsi-Cola North America--two steps away from the top job at PepsiCo--to spend more time with her family. Yet she returned to the workforce right where she had left off: as the number-two person at Sara Lee Corporation, one of the nation's largest consumer products companies.

Still, there were consequences. Barnes gave up seven years of earnings, which added up quickly at her Pepsi-Cola salary of $2 million per year. And there was no guarantee that she could return to such professional heights. Indeed, many people--even, or ...

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