From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jillian-berman/working-women_b_2910280.html
Jillian Berman
03/19/2013
Young working women like me were inundated with career advice in recent weeks and I’m having trouble sorting it all out.
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg says “Lean In,” while Erin Callan, the former CFO of Lehman Brothers says slow down if you ever hope to have a family. New York Magazine says it’s OK to fulfill 1950s gender norms and stay home with kids (as long as you have a husband with a low six-figure salary, of course). Even men offer advice on what I should do with my life.
It’s hard to get anything done when I have a mini Sandberg and Marissa Mayer in my head telling me what to do. “Did I just leave that meeting with my boss without asking for a raise because I’m subconsciously stepping back from my career in order to fulfill my motherly instincts years down the line?” I wonder. “Am I more or less productive when I work from home and what does that mean if years from now, I have to miss work to take my future kid to a doctor’s appointment?” I ask myself.
These are the weights you have saddled me with dear blogosphere.
In order to make sense of it all I decided to turn to the perennial working woman in my life — my mom. She wasn’t one of those “Super Moms,” who rushed home from work to prepare me dinner (my dad did most of the cooking), but she accomplished an impressive feat nonetheless. She worked long hours as a lawyer, but never missed a swim meet or violin lesson and cleared her schedule of work and work-related distractions when she was with me.
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See Also:
The Guardian UK: At-home mothers should stay out of childcare debate
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