OPINION: Working Moms and the Dual Income Trap

By Suzanne Venker , Author - May 26, 2009

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In Kiplinger's June 2009 issue there's an article titled "Goodbye City Life," by Elizabeth Ody. It tells about a Manhattan lawyer who quit her high-powered job to spend more time with her family and start a less demanding career at home: baking. Like many women today, Felicia Fisher has decided she wants a simpler life; so she started the Black Buggy Baking Company out of her home. Most of her work is done by 8:00 am -- 11:00 am on a bad day. "Although losing her salary was an adjustment ... Read the Full Article
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OPINION: Working Moms and the Dual Income Trap
  • Mary Ellen Walsh
    To work or not to Work,

    Here we go again. More reason for women to stay home and just behave. Things would be better if you just: cooked, cleaned, schlepped everyone to the library, tabled your dreams and stopped achieving. We wouldn't stop and listen so now the big bad economy is going to do it for us.

    I agree that getting back to basics is nice for any group of people who reside together -- call that a family. I know plenty of work-at-home husbands who cook.

    I'm a stay-at-home mother of three. I did without, quitting my highly stressful Manhattan PR job. We took hand-me down furniture to start our lives together. My children wear hand me down clothes. I finally just got a cell phone this year. We did without and it's been extremely hard for me now to get back into a field competing with other women who were smart and kept one foot in both worlds all this time (as crazy as their life was).

    Don't stick your head in the sand and buy into this one, ladies. We have to find a balance.

    Mary Ellen Walsh
    founder: www.daughtersandmoms.com

    - Mary Ellen WalshUS May 27, 2009 7:26AM

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