You can charge ahead and go take that corner office because we fought that fight for you.’ And a lot of women I talked to felt they were letting their mothers down if they failed. Plum: What do you think is the most toxic message they received?Ĭalhoun: I think a lot of us got this message, especially if we had Second Wave feminist mothers, of ‘Look, we knocked down all these walls for you. But so many of them just felt like it wasn’t enough though they couldn’t quite put their finger on what would be enough. Many either had a family or built a career, built a business, or took care of aging parents or bought their own house. What did you hear?Ĭalhoun: A lot of the women I talked to, who are now in their 40s and 50s, did a lot of stuff. Plum: You talked to hundreds of women across the country. I think it was the combination of this ‘reach for the stars’ message and mantra … combined with these economic forces and social forces that made it extremely hard to pull off even one thing. Who are they?Ĭalhoun: They’re women who were told growing up that they could be anything, even president, and then given no support in actually achieving that goal. Plum: This book and your research focused on Gex X women, a generation born between 19.
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