Quite a few women and families had been spoiled by being cradled in the lap of luxury. These ladies had quit well-paying jobs to start a family and raise children, while their less well-off sisters were struggling to make ends meet.
NYT today reports that "The Great Recession is pushing many highly educated women who had left work to stay at home with their children to dive back into the labor pool, according to several nationally recognized experts on women in the workplace. Many of these women are sending out job applications for the first time in years because their husbands were laid off, fear being laid off or had their salaries cut or because their family’s investments plunged in value..."
Wow...did these people ever think about how the poorer half lived on the planet?
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