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Desperate Housewives of the Ivy League?
Pollitt, Katha | October 17, 2005 issue

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Offers a discussion of the article "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood," by Louise Story, found in the September 20, 2005 issue of "The New York Times" newspaper. Claim of Story that 60 percent of women residents at Yale colleges plan to become stay-at-home mothers; Criticism of Story's research methods by a variety of people, including undergraduates, graduate students, and professors who were interviewed for the story; Reference to an article titled "Many Young Women Now Say They'd Pick Family Over Career," found in a 1980 issue of "The New York Times"; Discussion of the way "The New York Times" frames work and family issues.

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WORKING mothers; WORK & family; MOTHERHOOD; MOTHERS; WOMEN -- Social conditions; NEW York Times, The (Newspaper); UNITED States
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