Wow - NYT article spurs big discussion in the bloggo-world.
Link: Gotham Gal: Career Women?.
This is certainly an issue that my wife and I have been talking about recently. It is really hard to imagine having children and working the amount that we both work now. The two issues of particualr interest to me:
1. What do women that had stopped work to have children do when the children are grown?
2. Why isn't it acceptable for men to take time off / scale back / etc. to care for children too? It may be that there are industries where this would be acceptable even if not commonplace (tech maybe?) but I can think of many where it would be stigmitized. Ex. my wife's soon-to-be-employer (big law firm) has lots of flexible options to scale back and stay on partner track but they are only pitched to women and I don't think any men take them (I could easily be wrong about this), same story with my former employer (big strategy consulting firm).
It is obvious to me that our society needs to create much more flexible working arrangements.
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