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...past few weeks, Sylvia Anne Hewlett, the author of Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children, has been in the news for highlighting those women of past, many of whom discovered that their dreams of families deferred became dreams denied. Many Harvard women say they were already aware of the dilemma Hewlett outlines and had planned ahead for a checkered future of stop-and-start careers where children would fill in the gaps...
...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...
...think one telling story in this regard is 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...
...However, Hewlett encourages women to realize that their ability to balance family and career should extend beyond just finding a man with whom they can settle down. “Women should also be mindful of what careers they choose and what companies they decide to work for,” Hewlett said. “For example, doctors tend to do a better job balancing families than lawyers, and academics tend to have terrible luck balancing both. Academics have the highest rate of failure of any group. Entrepreneurs, however, tend to have incredible luck...
However, Loeb realizes that no matter where her life takes her, she wants to have children “in her 30s, before 35.” In fact, although Hewlett points to an epidemic of women wanting to have children later than biologically possible, many Harvard women set on having a career admit that they do not want to be older parents. Pasha M. Coupet ’02, who is attending Columbia Law School next year, says she will never want to be on a partner track at a law firm because she wants to have children before...