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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Waaaahhh!  God gave me a uterus and it's not fair I can have kids and it puts me back careerwise.  Sorry, less empathy here for the "power woman" whining about not being able to "lean in" and more for the Walmart Mom who must subsist on a minimum wage to support her kids.  [/quote]

[b]Walmart woman could have made the same choices I made. No sympathy. Shouldn't have had kids [/b](plural). [/quote]

Really? Are you sure she had the same opportunities as you? I know, OP, that very many people in this country are in poverty situations through no real fault of their own. I was fortunate That I grew up in an affluent two parent household. My parents paid for private school and college. Everything wasn't handed to me on a plate, but I started on third base. I just finished reading Factory Man, a book about the collapse of the furniture manufacturing industry in the U.S. A and the workers in small Virginia and North Carolina towns who lost their jobs. Was it their own fault that the Chinese were dumping products on the U.S. market below cost? In "The Corner, David Simon's book about one year in the life of an inner city drug market, Simon writes that very many middle class Americans imagine that they cold bootstrap their way out of poverty, when in fact when given the same life circumstances and life set skill of some of our poor they could not.

[b]The social, family and institutional dysfunction is too great. You are in no position to judge OP. You really aren't. [/b]

“You put a textbook in front of these kids, put a problem on the blackboard, teach them every problem in some statewide test, it won’t matter. None of it. ‘Cause they’re not learning for our world; they’re learning for theirs. They know exactly what it is they’re training for and what it is everyone expects them to be. It’s not about you or us or the test or the system. It’s what they expect of themselves. Every single one of them know they’re headed back to the corners. Their brothers and sisters, shit, their parents. They came through these same classrooms. We pretended to teach them, they pretended to learn and where’d they end up? Same damn corners."

-- Bunny Colvin, The Wire[/quote]

I'm the OP. What are you talking about? What am I judging? I simply said, in my original post, that an additional study shows that even correcting for everything, women are still not making it to the top ranks. That tells me there is something going on that is biased against (even childless) women who lean in that prevents them from advancing. I have no idea what this accusation is about.[/quote]

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