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Kennedy seen as model for re-entry women
Associated Press ^ | January 8, 2009 | KAREN MATTHEWS

Posted on 01/08/2009 1:52:14 PM PST by presidio9

With her Camelot pedigree and Park Avenue address, Caroline Kennedy is not exactly the average American woman. But many women identify with her impulse to enter the work force after two decades of child rearing.

Kennedy's bid for the Senate has reignited the "mommy wars" between mothers with careers and those who take a break from paid employment. Like Kennedy, many women face resentment when they return to the work force after raising kids and doing volunteer work.

"She's a Kennedy, but she's a lot like us," was the headline of a Dec. 28 column by Anne Glusker in The Washington Post. "If you strip away the glamour, the name and the money, then Caroline is ... me. And many of my friends."

Kennedy, 51, graduated from Columbia Law School but never practiced law. She raised three children, wrote and edited several books, served on the boards of public service organizations and worked as the unpaid chief of fundraising for the New York City schools.

Now that Kennedy's three children are adults or nearly so, she is opting to get back onto the career track, though on a much grander scale than most women.

Some experts who study women's careers see Kennedy as a potential model for women without her connections.

"My research shows that almost 40 percent of women do take an off ramp and do all kinds of things in the private sphere, whether it's saving the wetlands or running the PTA," said Sylvia Ann Hewlett, president of the Center for Work-Life Policy and the author of "Off Ramps and On Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success." "But none of that gives them much credit in the world of work."

Critics of Kennedy's sudden interest in the Senate see a dilettante with a

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bimbo; camelot; carolinekennedy; rearentrywomen; reentrywomen
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1 posted on 01/08/2009 1:52:14 PM PST by presidio9
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BARF. The AP snake-oil-selling Princess Caroline von Schlossberg-Kennedy as “regular mommy”.


2 posted on 01/08/2009 1:54:05 PM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light!)
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I want to say something, but it would get removed.
3 posted on 01/08/2009 1:54:10 PM PST by Perdogg (Only the hypnotized never lie)
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It is easy to not work when you are a Kennedy.


4 posted on 01/08/2009 1:54:22 PM PST by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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And Governor Palin is? (in their eyes).
5 posted on 01/08/2009 1:55:01 PM PST by captnorb
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ya Know, ya Know, ya Know ROFLMAO ...


6 posted on 01/08/2009 1:55:01 PM PST by Tarpon (America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
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7 posted on 01/08/2009 1:55:07 PM PST by Lucky9teen (Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words. ~ Calvin & Hobbes)
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Gag me from Barfing.

All I can think about is the invective heaped on a governor of a certain state, derisively referred to by brain dead tv types as the smallest state because of its population.

How the worms turn.

Saint Princess Caroline Kennedy, (FU Schlossberg), Her Royal Most Eminent though quite inarticulate Highness.


8 posted on 01/08/2009 1:55:55 PM PST by swarthyguy ("We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," ISI Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha)
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To: presidio9

‘Critics of Kennedy’s sudden interest in the Senate see a dilettante ‘

And their eyesight is obviously PERFECT.


10 posted on 01/08/2009 1:56:36 PM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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She is just a simple mom taking care of her children. Notice how that didn’t work with Sarah Palin. I wonder why?


11 posted on 01/08/2009 1:56:39 PM PST by bilhosty
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Where the hell is the BIG, NEON “BARF ALERT!”?


12 posted on 01/08/2009 1:57:10 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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Like Kennedy, many women face resentment when they return to the work force after raising kids and doing volunteer work.

Return, and expect to start at a level they'd have been lucky to reach even if they hadn't taken time off from the workforce? Shocking.

13 posted on 01/08/2009 1:57:12 PM PST by Arguendo
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But many women identify with her impulse to enter the work force after two decades of child rearing.

Then let her get a job in a gift shop, or in an office. If she really MUST be in politics, let her run for school board or city council or something. Get some experience, then come back and run for the Senate.

It cracks me up that the Dems are even entertaining putting Caroline in the Senate when they were calling a sitting Governor of a state unqualified to be Vice President.

14 posted on 01/08/2009 1:57:26 PM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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I returned to college after retiring from a 25 year career. They kept trying to shove me into their “Reentry” classes. It was ridiculous. Many of the classes were meaningless blather......very little that could help with pursuing a legitimate degree.

It was insulting.


15 posted on 01/08/2009 1:57:29 PM PST by EggsAckley (Living under the "Tyranny of the Stupid")
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I certainly do not identify myself with this dumba$$. Just what we need in NY, someone who can't even speak a whole sentence without saying you know 5 or 6 times.
16 posted on 01/08/2009 1:57:59 PM PST by AirForceMom
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Agreed - the article is foolish in its face - how many “average” American women raise a family and then “choose” to “re-enter” the working world by having themselves “appointed” to “high elective office”

....especially super rich white women?

17 posted on 01/08/2009 1:59:19 PM PST by VRWCTexan (History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)
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"She's a Kennedy, but she's a lot like us," was the headline of a Dec. 28 column by Anne Glusker in The Washington Post. "If you strip away the glamour, the name and the money, then Caroline is ... me.."......except I've had a job.
18 posted on 01/08/2009 1:59:46 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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RE-entry? Wouldn’t she have had to already been in the workforce at one time in order to RE-enter? She has never had a real job of any kind.


19 posted on 01/08/2009 2:01:40 PM PST by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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Id like to hear from the house butler about any actual rearing she did for her children. She has the same credentials as Obama, hell, run for president!


20 posted on 01/08/2009 2:01:57 PM PST by Edizzl79 (you want my guns..come and get em...I dare ya....)
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