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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, and I suppose you need a penis to prioritize your career. Way to genuflect SAHMs who left the workforce. You made your choice to be second.
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The point is that not everyone wants to prioritize their career to the degree that "big" jobs require. I think the so-called requirements are not actually necessary to perform even at the most demanding jobs, but I'm not foolish enough to believe that they don't actually exist for most careers.

I'm the PP who has stepped back some but still has a high-responsibility position earning $250K. That's not such a bad place to be career-wise at the age of 40. I could be further along and earning a lot more (DH is and does despite only 6 mos difference in when we graduated), but I've come to realize that I truly don't envy DH's career (which is amazing). We would be very happy, probably much happier, if DH could figure out how to get himself into a position similar to mine. My situation is a combination of luck and making a couple of difficult career decisions in the past that prioritized things other than salary and career advancement.

I'm not doing it because of an allegiance to gender norms. I see gender norms as making it somewhat easier for a woman to make the choices I've made...but on balance gender norms hurt me more than they've helped me.[/quote]

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