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- LETTERS, Page 6Slow Track for Mommies
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- Women have worked too hard to give in to the Mommy Track
- and settle for lesser jobs (BUSINESS, March 27). The solution
- is not corporate attempts to create flexible career paths but
- equal distribution of parental duties. Women are
- ethusiastically encouraged by husbands to pursue professional
- careers but are still held responsible, by both husbands and
- employers, as the primary care givers for children. I want to
- hear someone marvel, "He's the CEO of one company, sits on the
- board of another and has a family. I don't know how he does it
- all."
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- Lisa Akam Madison, Conn.
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- You hit half the nails on the head. Fathers who do
- noncareer things like drop the kids off at school and arrive
- home on time for dinner often end up on a "Daddy Track." These
- men do not move as far or as fast up the career ladder as their
- colleagues, but they keep their marriage and home life in
- balance and intact.
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- Jon M. Jensen Philadelphia
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- For almost every harried Mommy Track career woman, there is
- a man on a different path. He weightlessly bounds up the
- corporate ladder, free of doctor's appointments, teacher
- conferences and midday calls from the school nurse or principal.
- I think women on the Mommy Track have had their job expectations
- set for them by men.
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- Lynnann Hitchens Arlington, Va.
-