Word: superwoman
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...French woman, did you find that working in New York changed your work-life balance? Definitely. At times I caught myself letting work take over. Then one day, I asked myself what I was trying to prove. I am not Superwoman. You put your health and personal life in danger. But it's not worth it. We all need some "me" time - and women [do] more than men because we juggle so much more. (See 10 things to do in New York City...
...life. Here on our beloved campus, we tend to gravitate towards two specific paradigms of a woman’s future: the “superwoman” who wants to achieve everything, and the accomplished woman who prefers to stay at home to raise a family. The superwoman intends to become a successful full-time professional in a career she loves, make money, get married, raise a family, travel, cook, host parties, and still find time to go to yoga on Sundays. The full-time mother is equally well-educated, talented, ambitious, and perhaps will also pursue graduate degrees...
...While I fully respect and admire both of the latter identities—for their contributions to both the professional world and to the health of family life— these two seemingly fulfilling options have their limits; for example, while my own mother is a typical superwoman, I witnessed firsthand the career sacrifices she made in order to accommodate her family above all else. Furthermore, even in the U.S., many families cannot subsist on one income. While the progressive agenda of America’s Second Wave feminists during the 1960s and 1970s boldly paved...
...thing I would say makes her interesting. Maybe it's because I'm a southerner, but I'm interested in flawed characters. She's not always going to make the right decision; she makes mistakes sometimes. I think that's far more fascinating in literature than some kind of Superwoman, who goes around and plucks a pubic hair from a pillow, and says 'Ah, our offender is a right-handed Caucasian with a harelip.' She's never going to do that kind of thing. She's always going to be kind of in the background of the investigation...
...drop any of the glass balls." Although she puts in up to 30 hours a week running Reese Li Baby, Li still has time to volunteer at school, chaperone field trips and gossip with other moms at the playground. "I've learned that I can't be superwoman, so we eat more take-out dinners and the laundry piles up." But laundry, she points out, "is not a glass ball." --With reporting by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas