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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I get it now.
“but only a middle class white woman would compare herself to a rich white woman who never had to do a thing in her life and say, ‘hey, she’s just like me!’ Dim women are just so...dim”
Some women don’t want to believe that another woman might have something more than her and simply accept it as life. Either the luckier (always luck and nothing else) woman is the same or must be torn down.
Classic liberal method which would explain why a lot of women vote Democrat.
Oh yeah, I was a Girl Scout Leader, too! I’m imminently qualified! ;o)
Well along with being a “fetch coffee” intern at the New York Daily News at a very early age — she supposedly also once wrote for Rolling Stone about visiting Graceland following Elvis Presley’s death that summer...?
Go figure - sounds to me like she is every bit as “qualified” Obama was when he ran for the senate 4 years ago ...?
Exactly, that's why I included the reference to video and her numerous "you knows". There is nothing "fascinating, alluring, or attracting" about Caroline after looking at her or listening to her.
The fact that she types away “merrily” is probably why she got the job.
And her kids are probably grown, so child care issues aren’t a factor; and she is not likely to quit - EVER.
Re-entry? What the hell did she ever do in the first place?
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