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4 Phases of Women's Careers
50s & Beyond - Self-
Actualization
The second half of life depends on the chances, choices, efforts and pacing of the rst half - for both men and women. But because women and men have (for the moment) often spent the rst half of their lives with quite different career trajectories, they enter their second halves in different ways as well. Men may be tired of a 30-year sprint focused on their professional personas and breadwinning duties. They may welcome the idea of slowing down or giving back. Women, on the other, often feel free, sometime for the very rst time in their lives, to focus on themselves. After serving everyone else’s becoming, it’s nally their turn to become themselves.
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