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| Introduction | |
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| The Stanford Survey | |
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| Professional Women and Children | |
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| Is Having Children the Right Decision for Professional Women? | |
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| Experience: What Professional Women Say About the Decision | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Action Plan: Five Steps to Making the Decision | |
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| Are Professional Women Good Mothers? | |
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| Experience: What Are the Priorities of Professional Women? | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Action Plan: Taking a Parenting Reality Check | |
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| Is Guilt the Cost of Doing (or Not Doing) Business? | |
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| Experience: Professional Women and Guilt | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Action Plan: Eight-Step Plan for Dealing with Guilt | |
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| Children and Careers | |
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| Do Professional Women Have to Choose Between Career Success and Having a Family? | |
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| Experience: How Professional Women View Their Options | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Action Plan: Seven-Point Strategy for Enhancing Options | |
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| Now, Later, or Never: Is There a Right Time in a Career to Have Children? | |
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| Experience: What Professional Women Say About Timing | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Action Plan: Deciding on Timing | |
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| So Who's Doing It Right Anyway? To Work or Not | |
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| Experience: What Professional Women Say About Working and Having Children | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Action Plan: Three Strategies for "Getting It Right" | |
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| If I Work, What's the Best Way to Do It? | |
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| Experience: Evaluating Work Options | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Action Plan: Finding What Works | |
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| Once I Have Children, What Do I Do with Them? The Best Child Care for Professional Women | |
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| Experience: How Professional Women Rate Child-Care Options | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Action Plan: Securing the Right Child Care | |
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| Children, Careers, Relationships, and You | |
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| The Right Partner | |
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| Experience: Attributes of the Right Partner for a Professional Woman | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Action Plan: Relationship R | |
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| Okay, So What Are the Essentials of a Successful Life? | |
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| Experience: What Matters to Professional Women and Why | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Action Plan: Assessing the Essentials | |
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| Balancing the Equation | |
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| Experience: Pulling It All Together | |
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| Lessons Learned | |
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| Action Plan: Balancing the Personal-Professional Equation | |
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| A Final Note | |