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In reply to the discussion: Employers Are Baffled as U.S. Benefits End and Jobs Go Begging [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,182 posts)While I attended college for many, many years as an adult, I didn't get a degree until I was about 58 years old. I got a paralegal degree, which I'm still proud of.
But your essential point about person, not woman, is very important. I'm clearly guilty of the gender bias. I've experienced it more than once, and I really do appreciate your calling me out on this.
Several decades ago a woman I know who was an attorney took some kind of low-paying job (we're talking some 40 years ago and so the details are long since lost) because she had a gut feeling she might need it in the long run. Sure enough, two or three years later her marriage fell apart and having that job was crucial to her being able to go forward in her life.
Honestly, I cannot imagine how difficult the day-to-day arrangements of her life must have been. But I salute her and every other parent who has navigated these shores.