Fast Track Femininity ; 1) has Competing with Men Left Women Out of Touch with Their Feminine Side? Anna Pasternak Rediscovers What It Really Means to Be a Woman2) We've Worked Ourselves Half to Death in Order to Conquer the Career Ladder,yet in Theprocess We've Trampled Our Femininity Into the Ground

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RECENTLY, the media has been awash with articles suggesting that career women are to relationships what garlic is to a vampire - the kiss of death.

We're unable to sustain meaningful unions, apparently, because men are intimidated by our intellect, threatened by our higher earning potential and turned off by our controlling, capable, yet powerful personalities.

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Fast Track Femininity ; 1) has Competing with Men Left Women Out of Touch with Their Feminine Side? Anna Pasternak Rediscovers What It Really Means to Be a Woman2) We've Worked Ourselves Half to Death in Order to Conquer the Career Ladder,yet in Theprocess We've Trampled Our Femininity Into the Ground

While this has been my personal experience - I was left by the father of my daughter (now nearly five) three years ago when I was the higher earner - I think that the issue goes far deeper.

It is more psychological than sociological.

The problem, I believe, is not so much with career women per se, but that women are increasingly out of balance with themselves and, therefore, with men. I know I am.

In the past three years of being single, I have been on a handful of dates. Two years ago I went ...

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