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...getting jobs." World War II made Rosie the Riveter a figure of folklore, and many women never before in the work force found that they liked the independence gained by working. The postwar reaction was the "togetherness" syndrome of the Eisenhower era, a doomed attempt to confer on suburban motherhood something of the esteem that pioneer women once enjoyed. From the affluent housewife's suicidal despair in J.D. Salinger's "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," it was not far to The Feminine Mystique...
...upon childbearing as a temporary leave of absence from the work force; they have often prepared for quick re-entry by choosing and studying for a career while still in college and keeping up with their fields after marriage. The older generation, however, was brought up to believe that motherhood was in itself a satisfactory career goal. Today, when they try to enter the labor market at mid-life after a decade or two of absence-or after never having worked at all-they find that employers consider them qualified for only the lowest jobs. The skills and knowledge that...
Catch-22. In two areas there is no lack of demand for women. In pediatrics, seemingly viewed almost as an extension of motherhood, supply has responded to demand and fully one-fifth of all pediatricians are women. Obstetrics and gynecology, the second specialty, is medicine's catch-22. The Engleman study and others show clearly that women prefer female obstetrician-gynecologists, but only a scant 6.8% of doctors in women's medicine are women...
...wasn't eager for the part," says Actress Lee Grant. No wonder. The part was that of Sophie Portnoy-the smothering mother who gives motherhood a bad name-in the movie version of Philip Roth's bestselling novel Portnoy's Complaint. "During the filming, I would look at myself in the mirror and feel that I had disappeared," Miss Grant recalls, "and here would be this awful person that I couldn't shake until the movie was over." Actor Dick Benjamin, who plays Portnoy, seems to have felt the same way. "We worked beautifully together," says...
...surprising to find Harvard Student Agencies engaged in questionable commercial ventures which exploit their Harvard connection and the "motherhood" of student scholarships for personal financial gain. But for sheer effrontery and tackiness, it would be difficult to top their most recent excursion into entrepreneurial sleight-of-hand...