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Claiming that he had already been unfairly "tried and convicted in the press," Dr. Lionel A. Schwartz, 66, said he plans to retire permanently on May 15. In an interview yesterday, Schwartz said the press coverage of the case that began last April had made a fair hearing impossible...
...this happened 15 years ago--most of the articles make you think it happened yesterday. Since then I have had extensive rehabilitation. Most people I know have called it real yellow journalism. [The newspapers] give no credit to the fact that I can and have changed," Schwartz said...
...Schwartz, who heads Catalyst, a Manhattan research organization that focuses on work and family issues, offered the two-track plan as a way to help companies make the most of the vast numbers of women entering the managerial ranks. The author contends that women managers cost companies more to employ than men do. Turnover is greater among women managers, she says, because some of them quit high-pressure jobs when they cannot reconcile the conflicting needs of work and family. As a result, Schwartz claims, companies lose the time and training invested in such managers...
...their losses, Schwartz believes, companies must find a way to segregate "career-primary" women from "career-and-family" women. She argues that most working mothers would gladly trade advancement and high pay for the chance to spend more time with their families, and corporations would benefit from retaining them in less demanding middle-management positions...
...Schwartz seems surprised that her article provoked a storm of criticism. Says she: "Companies aren't looking for ways to keep women down. They are looking for tools to help women surface." Even if Schwartz's methods have met a resounding "ugh," meeting that goal is crucial for women as well as their employers. Nearly two-thirds of all new workers in the labor force over the next decade will be women. That is the most compelling argument against any notion that companies can afford to sideline the millions of workingwomen who will decide to become mothers as well...