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Sometimes When We Juggle

Sometimes When We Juggle Affilia: Journal of Women Poetry and Social Work Volume 22 Number 3 Fall 2007 307–308 © Sage Publications 10.1177/0886109907302252 http://aff.sagepub.com hosted at http://online.sagepub.com his poem brought to mind Jane S. Gould’s Juggling: A Memoir of Work, Family, and TFeminism (New York: Feminist Press, 1997). Former director of the Barnard Women’s Center, Jane Gould was a pioneer in the 1950s who worked to establish women’s career net- works and programs to help women to define their personal and professional goals and jug- gle the demands of career and family. With a compassion born of personal experience, she writes of her struggle to balance increasingly absorbing work with heavy family responsi- bilities and how this struggle led to a stronger sense of self amid persistent feelings of fear, inadequacy, and not belonging. Judy O. Berry You ask me how to do it. I ponder my reply. But you are right to ask. We are studying work and family. You are graduating seniors— all women. We reviewed the literature, read the books, watched a video, discussed, interviewed, to learn that it is a juggling act. But you want to know what I think, and you are right to ask. I am your http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

Sometimes When We Juggle

Berry, Judy
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work , Volume 22 (3): 2 – Aug 1, 2007
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Affilia: Journal of Women Poetry and Social Work Volume 22 Number 3 Fall 2007 307–308 © Sage Publications 10.1177/0886109907302252 http://aff.sagepub.com hosted at http://online.sagepub.com his poem brought to mind Jane S. Gould’s Juggling: A Memoir of Work, Family, and TFeminism (New York: Feminist Press, 1997). Former director of the Barnard Women’s Center, Jane Gould was a pioneer in the 1950s who worked to establish women’s career net- works and programs to help women to define their personal and professional goals and jug- gle the demands of career and family. With a compassion born of personal experience, she writes of her struggle to balance increasingly absorbing work with heavy family responsi- bilities and how this struggle led to a stronger sense of self amid persistent feelings of fear, inadequacy, and not belonging. Judy O. Berry You ask me how to do it. I ponder my reply. But you are right to ask. We are studying work and family. You are graduating seniors— all women. We reviewed the literature, read the books, watched a video, discussed, interviewed, to learn that it is a juggling act. But you want to know what I think, and you are right to ask. I am your

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