If divorce rates are higher for "career girls", it probably IS because they expect more from life and from their mates.
Along with teenage fiction about Cherry Ames, the inexhaustible nurse, the stewardess novels were virtually the only girls' career books around unless you counted the girl detectives, who didn't seem to get paid for their efforts.
Only 19% of the girls believed their career prospects were worse than those of their mothers, while 38% of the boys said they expected to be less successful than their fathers - but one in five of the girls aged 11 to 21 thought women were treated less fairly by employers.
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Spurring the interest and engagement of girls in STEM education and a related career-path is of particular importance for the White House Council on Women and Girls.
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While 42% of girls want to pursue a professional career, only 27% of boys do so.
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All of the girls are encouraged to call her for career advice.
Only one of the four girls finds lasting happiness in both marriage and career.
But that is true for girls and women way before you ever choose your career.
Girls' exam results have risen more sharply than boys', perhaps because more girls now expect to have a long-term career after leaving school.
There are still too many young girls who receive subtle messages that science is not for them and girls often believe that mixing families and a serious science career cannot be done.
The truth is, however, that the same behaviors that wound and traumatize us as girls are alive and well in the workplace, undermining our career success.
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And we've learned a lot about the dos and don'ts of applying for a job and starting a career, because we want this experience to be very practical for the young girls as well.
That's why I decided to marry her. (Laughter.) And once Michelle and I had our girls, she gave it her all to balance raising a family and pursuing a career -- and something that could be very difficult on her, because I was gone a lot.
The US contribution to Equal Futures includes a renewed commitment to opening more doors to high-quality education and career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) for women and girls, who currently hold only one-quarter of all US jobs in these fields despite making up nearly half of the total US workforce.
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One cringes as she relives a meeting, early in her career, with a male boss and customers at a notorious strip club, where even the staff girls were too embarrassed to do their table dances until she had left.
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