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Combining a professional career with family life poses difficulties for women. This may come as a surprise to some. After all, feminism supposedly won its battles in the 1960s and 1970s. There should be no problem—egalitarianism surely prevails in two-career relationships and everything gets shared.
While the large majority of Harvard men have enjoyed professional success, bringing home even larger incomes, the career paths of many Radcliffe women have been broken, interrupted by marriage, children, and what some of them argue is a hostile, male-dominated world.1
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Gilbert, L.A. (1988). Women’s Slowly Changing Reality. In: Sharing it all. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2792-7_2
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