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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have several female friends who went to Harvard undergrad.

All got great jobs out of college: venture capitalist, editor at a publishing house, microfinance, investment banking. One went on to Harvard Law then was an associate at a top NYC firm. 
Then they had kids....

ALL of them have mommy tracked themselves if they stayed in the same field. One completely changed careers to something more family friendly. Two aren't even working any more because of family needs.

My point is, yes, going to a top school can set you up for a great career but you may not want to stay there. All of those women are exactly where many other moms have ended up, despite the college they attended. [/quote]

So…are you basically saying women for the most part still go to college for their MRS degree?  Sure sounds like it.[/quote]

I'm a little older and what I see is a career pattern for some women that is different from the career pattern for men.  Men coast at the end of their careers. Women coast in the middle of their careers.

Men tend to go straight through from graduation to retirement and their most creative productive time tends to be their early career in their 20s, 30s and 40s. By their 50s and 60s, they tend to be more satisfied with where they are at and coast more.

Women tend to have a productive decade from 25-35 and then a pause in their career while they raise kids and then a return to being highly productive/creative when their kids are older or out of the house. I know a lot of women in their 50s and 60s who are doing some really ambitious stuff.  [/quote]

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