The Career Trap That Makes Women Miserable - Suzanne Venker - #1113

You dedicated your book with an apology to a generation of women who've been misled. They did. How have they been misled? Yeah. I was essentially apologizing for the oversight that I believe both my generation, which is Gen X, by the way, I was born in 68, and the generation one up from me, which is the boomers, which I think is more

really what I'm talking about, but definitely some Gen X. Um, the oversight that they um did not share with their children, their daughters in particular, because I really write mostly for young women. Um how to go about building a life that essentially includes marriage and motherhood, that the messaging has been for decades now, you can do anything you want to do without any caveats there, with no explanation or nuance. You need to sort of prove yourself in the world in the way men do because equality is the goal.

Men and women are the same. This this kind of messaging. And then taught them pretty much to put career at the center of their lives. And what they didn't do was talk about how marriage and motherhood was going to fit into their lives and into that equation if they're just singularly focused on education and career.

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