There was an interview on UK morning tv yesterday with this lady (I think that’s her last name) following the reaction to a book she recently published in America - has anyone read it? I have ordered it although it’s not published here till the end of the month.
She basically says that many ambitious professional/career women end up postponing a personal life, including a partner and children, until it’s too late. It sounds very similar to Danielle Crittenden’s book “What our mother’s didn’t tell us”, a book I read recently.
I have certainly seen this happen time and time again in the legal profession and find it incredibly sad. I currently have a demanding job as a corporate lawyer but had always felt I wanted to have my children in my late 20s/ early 30s and will be scaling down my career during their early years, to be scaled back up again once the kids are in school. The 2 books I’ve mentioned say that women get so swept up in the whole career thing that they forget to have children! I find this so hard to understand or believe but would welcome anyone else’s views on this.
At the same time, I think if you choose not to have children at all, that is fine also and that you shouldn’t be denigrated or treated differently because of this! I find that women are constantly judged and criticised, whatever route we take.
Any thoughts anyone? I was just intrigued by this topic and wondered what you all thought.
Your friend in fitness, Fitnik
She basically says that many ambitious professional/career women end up postponing a personal life, including a partner and children, until it’s too late. It sounds very similar to Danielle Crittenden’s book “What our mother’s didn’t tell us”, a book I read recently.
I have certainly seen this happen time and time again in the legal profession and find it incredibly sad. I currently have a demanding job as a corporate lawyer but had always felt I wanted to have my children in my late 20s/ early 30s and will be scaling down my career during their early years, to be scaled back up again once the kids are in school. The 2 books I’ve mentioned say that women get so swept up in the whole career thing that they forget to have children! I find this so hard to understand or believe but would welcome anyone else’s views on this.
At the same time, I think if you choose not to have children at all, that is fine also and that you shouldn’t be denigrated or treated differently because of this! I find that women are constantly judged and criticised, whatever route we take.
Any thoughts anyone? I was just intrigued by this topic and wondered what you all thought.
Your friend in fitness, Fitnik