well, the Oscars are this sunday and i've seen 7 of the 10 films on the best picture nominee list. i'm going to disney world this weekend (hoooooorrrrraaaaahhhh!!!), so i won't be able to continue on my quest. all my reactions are in a previous post (see below).
the movie that probably stuck with me the most was "up in the air." one of the themes they explored that i've been contemplating is females as successful career women vs family women. are the two mutually exclusive? can we ladies really have both? be both ambitious, successful women and available, successful mothers? can you have a complete and happy home and family if you're also an important and busy big shot at work? and if you try to juggle both, are you guaranteed to be plagued by guilt or be somehow lacking in one role or both?
recently in American society we've seen that there are more and more women who are the primary bread winners in their families. i'm curious about what this has done/will this do to the family unit, if anything. i know some of the concern is how gender roles might be rattled with these changes and that this can add strain to marriages.
any thoughts on this out there in the interweb? anyone have any personal experience on the subject you care to share?
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We have a woman who does just that - pumps in a business suit. A private office is reserved for her to pump - affectionately referred to by the rest of us as the lactation station. She only works three days a week so thinks she's got the best of both worlds. Intellectual stimulation and quality time with her baby. So apparently with the right employer, it can be done.
that's excellent that your company is flexible enough to work with her schedule. more and more we women folk are designing our career/home lives to accommodate both.
and, in medicine, whereas residency programs used to be selected by location/quality of program/pay, now i hear tell that the call schedule is the first priority. even MD's want lives now, i guess. and i think that some of that is that there are more women in medicine and families are among their priorities.
thanks for your thoughts!
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