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[quote=Anonymous]My cruelest and most painful experiences in my career usually come from younger professional women who try to move quickly through the ranks by using communication skills and their sexuality more than developing technical or business acumen. I am a woman in my 40s who never had children, and it was not because of my career or my selfishness. There were many other factors. However, because I am a woman with no kids, younger women often treat me with scorn and disdain, as if I am expecting them to be like me. I spent a good part of my 30s caring for my mother who was dying of cancer. There were no accommodations at work for that type of care, either. Class differences are much more challenging to overcome than gender differences. Men who are first generation college students and professionals had a much more challenging time than women who followed their fathers footsteps into law, medicine, business. [/quote]
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