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Wednesday, February 8, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
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Workshop focuses on career, family
by Cynthia L. Smith Kansan staff writer
American women need more affordable child care, said Barbara Ballard, director of Emily Taylor and associate dean for student life.
Ballard spoke at the "Challenging New Perspectives for Women in Careers, workshop which was sponsored by the Pine Room at the Kansas Union
"For so long in our country, child care has been our (women's) responsibility, and we wanted it that way." Ballard said. "We made it that way."
banned said. "We made it that way."
She said that the government and
corporations needed to provide in-house child care centers because more women were single parents and pursuing careers.
pasting them into the story.
"And what we're finding out is with the economy the way it is, you almost need two paychecks," Ballard said.
She said that women no longer felt that they had to choose between a family and a career, but sometimes felt guilty about choosing both.
College students could not be expected to choose a lifetime career, she said.
"They should try not to think of this as a career for the rest of their lives." Ballard said. "It's not so
scary that way."
seary that way. Ballard said that many students were busy balancing jobs and school.
"A career is something you plan for, but a job is whatever you do to survive." she said.
sure she is here to say.
"You have to say, 'I did a good job,' rather than wait for someone else to compliment you," she said.
Many of Ballard's suggestions also apply to men.
"But women, on the whole, still have more to juggle," she said.
Jane Hoyt, a KU graduate, said that she enjoyed discussing ways to balance the different aspects of her life.
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