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- From: leewon@bnr.ca (Lee Won)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Is There A Parent Track for Technical Professionals?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.145959.23182@bmers95.bnr.ca>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:59:59 GMT
- References: <cindy.217@berkp.uadv.uci.edu> <1993Jan21.201315.11573@news.vanderbilt.edu> <1993Jan23.023857.14115@odin.corp.sgi.com> <30375@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
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- In article <30375@optima.cs.arizona.edu>, bweiss@cs.arizona.edu (Beth Weiss) writes:
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- |>
- |> What bothered me the most about the post saying 'choose kids or work,
- |> but you can't have both', is that the post was directed towards
- |> _mothers_, not fathers. It's widely accepted, somehow, that a sick
- |> child means MOM stays home from work--that it's her responsibility to
- |> pick up a sick child at school, to stay home with the child when the
- |> child is ill, etc. and so on. As long as people continue to accept
- |> that idea as a basic premise, people are going to be shortchanged:
- |> moms, dads, and children.
- |>
- |> --
- |> --Beth Weiss
- |> bweiss@cs.arizona.edu
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- Hear!! Hear!! I hearby nominate that we change the name of
- this thread to 'is there a parent track for technical professional'.
-
- By the way, I returned to work 4 months ago at 3 days per week.
- Its been working out well, but I still feel that going part time
- does put one's career development on 'hold' for a while.
-
- ... Lee
-