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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The sexism on this thread is astounding.

Astounding.[/quote]

Starting with the thread title. How do men with “big careers” (whatever that is?) make it work?[/quote]

Well, for one, the men usually have a supporting spouse at home.

True story.  My mom was a senior VP in a Fortune 500 company.  She was the only woman in the senior leadership.  She was at a late meeting one day with other senior leaders.  It was about 8 or 9 pm.  As they 6-7 of them were walking out the door, one man turned to my mom and said something like "Wow, I'm hungry.  I hope Larla has something good ready for dinner tonight when I get home!  What about you?"  My mom, without missing a beat, said "When I get home I'm making a good dinner.  I'm sure Laslo is looking forward to it!"  The speaker and the other men were completely nonplussed.  All of them had spouses who were SAH and who waited on them hand and foot.  This was in the 2000s.

Gender roles are hard to break.  On the other hand, the loud and prolonged sound that you heard in the 90s was of the glass breaking as my mom clawed her way to the top, using her hammer to chip a hole in the ceiling so that she and other women could climb through.  And my dad was right there with her boosting her in any way he could, just like she boosted him earlier in his career.[/quote]

Your mom sounds like the Enjoli perfume commercial:  I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, and never, ever forget he.s a man, “cause I’m a woman,  ....[/quote]

LOL.  She is pretty impressive.  She was SAH for 20 years supporting my dad's career all over the world but once she got out in the work force, she it the ground running and never looked back.  I forgot about the commercial but my mother would be the embodiment of it![/quote]

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