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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a woman, I admire successful women.  I work PT and have "stepped down" from a more prestigious route b/c I have two young children.  My neurotic tendencies have made me do so - honestly!

I have a friend in some unique (a real niche) IT position.  She has two kids, a flexible schedule, and paid travel btw. DC and CA where her company is headquarted.

Her kids are fine.  They understand mom travels and are often under the care of their father and/or relatives during her travel time.  Eventually, when they're older, they'll travel with her, I'm sure.

I won't push my daughter, but I'll definitely encourage her to break that glass ceiling.  If it were not for these women who broke barriers, we'd still be expected to stay home and to manage the household.  I certainly want more for my daughter - and I would hope that my son would admire a women who was driven to succeed.  Only then can we find true equality - when both men and women are on equal footing in the workforce.

So if there's a "Stephanie Jobs" out there, I'll be cheering her on!

[quote=Anonymous]As a woman who is doing what most people will view as stepping down the career ladder to spend more time with family, I've been doing a lot of thinking about these types of issues.

My question is why is it important that there someday will be a female Steve Jobs?  I guess what I'm saying is if there really is no woman willing to give up enough family time or whatever to get to Steve Jobs' level, isn't that okay?...as long as women have the choice.

I certainly won't push my daughter to be the next Steve Jobs (or even on a smaller scale, partner of a law firm) if she would prefer to spend more time with her kids.  [/quote][/quote]

But it seems mothers always want their daughters to be the glass cieling breakers even if they themselves did not want to.  My mom was this way...a HUGE feminist (like me) but chose to "mommy track" herself because she wanted more time at home.  This was completely her choice and she was happy.  Nevertheless, she "encouraged" me to go to law school and stay on partner track to break those glass ceilings.  She was disappointed for a few weeks when I told her I was changing career paths.  I had to remind her to think back to when her children were young and how she felt.  Now she's totally on board and supportive but for some reason she had this idea that her daughter would break through even though she didn't want to - turn's out I didn't want to either.  Oh well.  So I'll support my daughter in whatever she chooses but I don't want to sacrifice her life so that the world gets a Stephanie Jobs.[/quote]

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