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Hewlett encourages senior women to assess their options now. She says they should look ahead and realize what they want at 45, and if that is a healthy family relationship with children, they need to give priority to finding a serious relationship in their 20s and having their first child in their early 30s. Hewlett emphasizes that she “hates to make this argument,” but that women must realize they all face a biological wall. At age 27 a woman’s ability to carry children begins to decline, and the only...
...that of Katie Couric,” Hewlett said. “I was on the Today Show on Monday and later in the week I saw Katie at a reception held at Tina Brown’s home. She told the story of how she spent her 20s being incredibly ambitious, not focused on men. But at age 30, she went to a funeral of a CBS executive and looked around and realized that all the pallbearers were the woman’s colleagues. She vowed to change her life and went on every date she was asked...
...universal conundrum for mothers in their 20s: the best years for having children coincide with the best years for establishing a career. Hewlett suggests "backward mapping": decide what you want from life by a certain age, and plan backward from there. Easier said than done, perhaps, but not for Leah Halpern, 27, of Hillsdale, N.J. Determined not to end up "a 35-year-old assistant," she took a big pay cut to move from Vanity Fair to a smaller magazine before having her baby, so she could get the more elevated job title she will need on her resume when...
Some women, however, see a "baby sabbatical" as a chance to define what they want out of work, like Lu Dayment, 46, of Indianapolis, who had three kids in her 20s and at 35 went to graduate school in library science. "It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up," she says. Others take time off but maintain close connections to their former jobs, to ease their eventual re-entry into the working world--or simply to avoid going insane after reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar for the 2,000th time...
...energy to keep up with young kids and can look forward to a longer empty-nest life. In addition to the reduced risk of running into fertility problems, some moms say they're glad they took the physical beating of pregnancy and labor while still in their more resilient 20s...