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[quote=Anonymous]There once was a generation of elite women - with more choices for them than any that came before them. Because generations of women had fought hard, they had more options: law firms and the hospitals and businesses were more willing to let them go part time; technology had made telecommuting easier; and they were more likely to get parental leave.  The choices didn't extend to all women in their country and it wasn't perfect even for them but it was a lot of choice. Some decided it wasn't for them. They wanted the time with their children.  They didn't need the paycheck and the cost on their families was too much. Others felt that the cost of living to standards they wanted didn't really give them a choice to opt-out.

Their world wasn't perfect. Not all the employers were as flexible. And no choice was perfect. The ones who worked full time no doubt felt a twinge here or there as they left a crying baby at daycare, the ones who stayed home sometimes had a moment where they wondered whether they had too many degrees to be doing this full time and some worried they wouldn't ever be able to get back in and the ones who worked part-time had an annoying moment here or there were a less competent full-time colleague was promoted.

There was still work to be done to improve their circumstances --making it easier to come back into the work force after an extended leave, more flexible employment options. But instead of fighting for the next step, this group of women spent their energy fighting each other. They fought over who did more, whether it was wrong to leave your kids if you could afford to stay home, whether it was wrong to have a schedule to allow you to go to the gym four times a week. They forgot that what their sisters had fought for was to give them each their own choice, however imperfect it may be. And they were so busy fighting each other that they forgot to fight - as their sisters before them had done -for even better choices for their daughters.

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