Women seek second careers in midlife professional pivots
New York report shows women in their 30s with secure careers pursuing law, social work, medicine and psychology. Carol Rinzler enters law school while Rosemary Masters studies social work. Margaret Lewin shifts from aerospace to medicine. Carol Reich pursues child psychology as she handles a demanding doctoral program.
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Women Changing Careers Across Midlife In Growing Trend
A Blondie business professor notes rising midlife career shifts among professional women. Younger women move toward graduate studies under pressure to advance, while many pursue new fields through 45 degree turns into related areas or 90 degree jumps into new professions. Interviews with Mrs. Rinzler, Carol Reich, Rosemary Masters, and Margaret Lewin illustrate diverse paths from law, interior design, social work, to medicine, reflecting shifting aspirations and expanding opportunities for women.
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Chicago police on the North Side provide free plastic mittens to dog owners to pick up droppings and drop them in nearest trash cans. Mittens cost about one cent each. Police say the program is not enforceable against a 1945 law aimed at horse droppings, which they do not plan to enforce.
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