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...latest storm is the silliest yet. Dati's climb to power has hardly been easy. One of 12 children - her illiterate Algerian mother died young and her Moroccan father raised the family in a housing project on his modest earnings as a construction worker - Dati began working at 16, studying at night, and later earned economics and law degrees. As the first person of North-African descent to run a major French Ministry she has proved to be an ambitious fighter. But post-birth, she faced an unenviable decision, says Gwendoline Michaelis, editor in chief of Femme Actuelle's website...
...true that laws designed to protect women have failed to end certain problems. Women's status is eroded by long absences from work, for instance; women still earn less than men - about 20% in Germany, Britain and the U.S. Socialist politician Ségolène Royal, mother of four, told the Journal du Dimanche that she took only two weeks' maternity leave while she was Minister of the Environment in 1992, because she "feared being sidelined...
...furore over Dati, the possibility that she may have wanted to get back to work has been discounted altogether. Like Dati I came to motherhood late, in 2006, with little idea of how to manage a career while nurturing a new baby. Some friends, and even my own mother, questioned my choices - including my decision to resume heading off on far-flung assignments when my son was three months old, leaving him with his more-than-capable father. Yet the choice was mine - as it is for many friends and millions of other women who raise their children full-time...
...adored the family business and made others love it too. Don Callender persuaded his mother Marie Callender to open a chain of pie shops that eventually went national and sold for about $80 million...
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