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The Unmarried Women of the Supreme Court
An excerpt from Ruth Marcus’s column today in the Washington Post:
(Elena) Kagan’s nomination raises another, somewhat uncomfortable question: what to make of the fact that, assuming she is confirmed, two of the three women on the court will be unmarried and childless. The obvious inference is that marriage and motherhood are not particularly compatible with the relentless career path required to achieve that level of success.
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Thank you for posting this. I read a comment on the NYT site saying that Kagan couldn’t possibly represent most women in America precisely because she hasn’t been married or had children. This person went on to say that the message to young women is that they will have to give up a lot in order to succeed.
Good on Ruth Marcus for showing that this is not so!