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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that some people are commenting who have not read or heard what Lean In is about.  First, no one says you have to work 80 hours/week to be successful or to join a circle with Lean In.  In fact that is the exact opposite.  
As a full time working mother I have a career which I love and a spouse and child I adore.  The spouse steps up - big time- and it helps me to do what I do... and vice versa.  What I want to see is more confidence... and I need stories and support from other professional working women to give me some boosts, tips, and the confidence to step up.  
Tearing other women down for working hard AND being mothers is the exact opposite of the intent.[/quote]

Frankly, if successful women had been interested in giving other women "some boosts, tips and the confidence to step up" over the last 30 years, there would be no need for this type of manufactured women-helping-women b.s. now.  Women don't like to help women.  We all know this.  In particular, older women who may have felt they couldn't take any time off for family (or couldn't have a family at all) are quite hostile toward women in the workplace who want to take time off or who are returning from time away.  Fix that, you've fixed the problem.  Fail to address that, no amount of pretend "we're all in this together" networking events will make any difference.[/quote]

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