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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Otherwise Engaged
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Date: Thu, 28-Nov-85 18:23:18 EST
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> > In article <632@oliveb.UUCP> toml@oliveb.UUCP (Tom Long) writes:
> > >[]
> > >	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" ?
> > 
> > Cheryl
> > 

I think the critical questions are: What is the book's definition of "doing
well"?  Under this definition, do men who favor their marriages over their
careers do better than men who favor their careers over their marriages?  If
so, then why?  If not, then why does Srully Blotnick present the findings as
if they applied only to women?  And if the study was not applied to men, so
that the comparative data isn't available, then why wasn't it done, and why
does the book not say so, implying that a difference between men and women
has been found when the author doesn't really know?

Another critical question: is it even possible to measure such things as
success and happiness?
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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