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[quote=Anonymous]I worked in the intelligence community starting in 1988 a year out of college. I had my first child when I was 35 in 2000. I was a GS-14 and continued working for two years until I had baby #2. The women who were all in management when I first joined the government were almost all single or married and childless. There were very few women in management who had children, so I had no mentors to look up to who were moms. Every woman I knew at work who had a baby took positions that guaranteed they'd never get promoted but allowed flexibility or they went part time - which was almost impossible as a GS-14, or they resigned. Because it was the intelligence community, you had to be physically at work to work - absolutely zero telecommunity opportunities. Once I had my second child, it no longer became emotionally feasible to continue working and raising two children. So I joined the countless other moms who resigned. [/quote]
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