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Stressed For Success: The Working Mother
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36 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 1 hour agoMy first child was born in 1982, when the "Mommy Wars" were at full throttle, and I struggled to figure out where I fit in. "Having it all" was our mantra, but the reality was that if you DID have it all, you wanted to give some of it back! That is, unless you were the CEO of Xerox Corporation and could afford to hire a nanny, a chauffer, a nurse, a housekeeper, a cook, a tutor, and a crisis counselor to do what we ordinary working mothers were called upon to do every day.
Those were The Dark Ages for secretaries, sales clerks, waitresses, bank tellers, mail carriers and nurses' aides; in other words, for the greatest percentage of working mothers. For us, the "glass ceiling" was beyond our range of vision.
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