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From: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Otherwise Engaged
Message-ID: <683@lasspvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 10:01:23 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 14 10:01:23 1985
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Reply-To: cheryl@lasspvax.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
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Summary: 

In article <632@oliveb.UUCP> toml@oliveb.UUCP (Tom Long) writes:
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>	I have just finished reading "Otherwise Engaged: the private lives of
>successful career women" by Srully Blotnick.  This book reports the results
>of a 25-year study of the lives of over 2000 women.... 
>	A primary assertion is that when there is a conflict between marriage
>and career, those women who favor their marriage will do better in the long
>run that those women who favor their career. 

What do you (who may or may not have aptly summarized the findings of this
study) mean by "do better in the long run" ?  Make more money?  Have
better sex?  "Be Happy" ?  Have a nicer house?  More friends?  Evince more
intellectual integrity?  Carry out their principles?  Save the world, feed
the starving and clothe the naked?  Go boldly where no man has gone before?

If you were writing your summary for a class that I teach, I would put
in the margin of your second paragraph one of my favorite comments:
"Be Specific!" -- with a great big red "B" followed by a great big red "S".

> Women who sacrifice marriage
>for a career tend to be seen by those around them (men and women) as driven,
>brittle, and moody.

So?  After a lifetime of service to humankind, they're going to
say at that woman's funeral ..

" oh, she was bitter and moody".  

Cheryl
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