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Article: Don't give up your day job: Leslie Bennetts on The Feminine Mistake.(Interview)
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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PRIOR TO JOINING VANITY FAIR, where she has been a contributing editor since 1988, Leslie Bennetts spent ten years at the New York Times. Bennetts started as a writer for the Style section and went on to cover national politics, metropolitan news, and City Hall, becoming the first woman ever to cover a presidential campaign for the Times. In her new book, The Feminine Mistake, Bennetts asserts that women's decisions to abandon their careers may save them stress in the short-term, but the repercussions are enormously dangerous--and women often fail to understand this until it's far too late. Further, she argues, the financial and psychological benefits of working outside ...