Friday, September 10, 2004

Paralyzed: The Life of the Mid-Level Career Woman (Part II). Recently I read an article by Lisa Belkin in The New York Times Magazine about women with advanced degrees who had left the rat race permanently to raise their families. My first instinct was to feel envious of them. They had obviously married high-earning partners and could afford to live on only one income. And they had, politely, given it to the man by bowing out of his race. At the end of the article one of the women answers the rhetorical question, "Why don't women run the world?" "in a way," she said, "we do." I wouldn't disagree, but what about the rest of us working women who are single and childless? We don't have the contingency plan of raising a family and living our passions rent-free. Even those of us who are open to investing in our careers question whether we want to climb long, steep, career ladders ”with... [Pause] 7:09:52 PM