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Get the Summary of Claudia Goldin's Career and Family in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. This book traces how generations...
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#1 We published our first book, “The SideHustle Project”, on Amazon. It was a twenty-page PDF that we turned into a book. We had very little experience, but we were excited to get it out there and see what people thought.
#2 I was scared to tell my parents I was about to drop out of college, so I went to visit a mentor and got the validation I needed to know it...
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#1 A tom man is what happens when a tomboy just never grows out of it. A tomboy is what people are usually charmed by, but nobody likes a tom man.
#2 I was a tom man throughout high school, and I didn't really start to transform into a woman until I was in college. I had a boyfriend, but I didn't participate in the seductive arts with him. When we moved in together after...
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#1 The College Application Industrial Complex is a toxic system that demands that students excel at everything, and if they don't, it can feel catastrophic. It leaves a lasting imprint on girls' motivation, sense of purpose, and self-worth.
#2 The message your daughter is receiving is that she needs to be exceptional at everything she does, and she will be happy...
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#1 The application process is long and requires you to submit your primary application by a certain date. You should consider forcing yourself to apply within the first couple months of the application cycle opening.
#2 You should plan to take the MCAT no later than March or April of the year you are planning on applying. Delaying your test to make sure you are prepared...
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#1 Phoenix was a failure as an insurance salesman. He could not even afford the discounted rates at the local community college, Brookline. He had to tell his son that they could not afford to send him to college.
#2 Phoenix was smoking a cigarette outside when he was approached by a man named Champ Dailey, who offered to help him. Phoenix went to his office on Monday, where he was...
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#1 Washington is a state separated into two distinct and dissimilar zones by a spine of rugged mountains, the dramatic, volcanic Cascade Range. The climate is milder and considerably wetter in the lower elevations west of the Cascades.
#2 On January 31, 1974, Lynda Healy went out with her roommates to Dante's, a nearby college bar. She was home by 9 p. m. , but her roommates...
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#1 I had a career because the all-male board at my junior-year college decided to replace our brilliant but decidedly masculine headmistress with a woman who was in the process of eclipsing her in the affections of her lover.
#2 Benji, a journalist, was 19 years old when he was assigned to cover the story of an all-male college board's decision to replace its headmistress...
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#1 I was taken back to the first hot day in 1965 when I announced to my family that I had joined the Marine Corps. In 1965, the war in Viet Nam was growing bigger every day. The United States had a military draft and was pulling more and more guys into the Army. I didn't want to go to college, get married, or work. I just wanted to figure out what life had in store for...
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#1 Rutherford Hayes, the future president, had little in common with George W. Bush, his twenty-first-century successor. He was a New Englander born in West Brattleboro, Vermont, who descended from a long line of Presbyterians who had come from Scotland in 1625 to settle in Connecticut.
#2 Hayes was a sickly child, and it was Fanny who was his protector and nurse. He...
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#1 I was a waitress on a boat in college. I would have killed to work there. Instead, I slaved away in a shitty campus bar serving college athletes who considered a good tip a quarter and a grope worthy of a sexual harassment suit.
#2 The trip was a company function, and I couldn't be bothered with most of the people there. All the sales weasels were hanging on my every...
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Book Preview: #1 My love affair with college began in a hurricane. I'd been in college exactly five weeks when I felt lucky to be there, on Yale's gothic campus surrounded by crisp mid-Atlantic air. I had been ready to leave home.
#2 I fell in love with a boy named Miles who had started the hiking orientation program. He was both safe and reckless, and I found him irresistible. I...
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#1 I graduated college in 1996, and that same year, I worked as a paralegal for a civil rights law firm. I was not cut out for the law, and I never will be. My parents were disappointed in me, and so was I.
#2 I would spend hours at the Strand Book Annex, searching for someone just like me on the back cover of a book. I was looking for the sloppy turn of phrase or the...
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#1 I was woken up at 3 a. m. by a loud knock at the door of my room. I opened the door cautiously, anticipating that this could be a simulated kidnapping, and that I could be grabbed forcefully and have a bag put over my head before being dragged away and kept captive for hours.
#2 I was stuck in the middle of nowhere, and a car full of college students passed by. I...
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#1 I was a quintessential L. A. girl for the first twenty-one years of my life. I had a year-round tan, blond highlights, and lived in flip-flops. I wore cutoff shorts from Abercrombie Fitch and sipped on vanilla milkshakes with my burger and fries.
#2 I grew up in a Korean household in California, and I straddled both cultures. I spoke English at school, but Korean...
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#1 My father, Brin, came from a more humble background. He was born in Wales to a middle-class family where his father, Oliver John, worked as a carpenter. He was a brilliant man who spoke French and German fluently.
#2 I had many memories of my father, who was headmaster of King's College in Cambridge. I loved him very much, and still do. He was a charming, charismatic...
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#1 I got into a good college, but my parents insisted I get a job because they wanted to see a return on their investment. I realized that the path I was expected to take, to make my life financially secure, wasn't for me.
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#1 I was more prepared for death than I was for life when I returned from the war in 1967. I had learned how to face death and cause it, with everything on the evolutionary scale of weapons from the knife to the 3. 5-inch rocket launcher.
#2 I grew up in Westchester, Illinois, one of the towns that rose from the prairies around Chicago as a result of postwar affluence,...
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#1 The Egyptians who visited Belgrade in 2009 were planning a revolution against their own dictator, Hosni Mubarak. They weren't aspiring politicians, but college kids like me, who shared the same passions as college kids all over the world: staying up late, drinking a lot, and trying to get a date.
#2 I loved Rimtutituki, a Serbian punk band, because they were anti-war and spoke...
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#1 I was a comedy writer for my college radio show. I was wondering how I would get into show business, since it seemed impossible. I didn't know how you enter show business, but I was sure it wasn't through college.
#2 I wanted to be a comedian, and I spent my time talking to comedy legends and asking them how they got into comedy. I was told that John Belushi, Joe...
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