European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 irks the stars and stripes August 1985 the superwoman of the 80s a growing return to Hearth and Home by Iris Krasnow United press International Francine Levy had it a lucrative practice at a top Chicago Law a successful and supportive a baby on the All that was missing was peace of i think women were sold a Bill of goods that if you had a you would feel fulfilled and your life would be says but there is a Down especially if you have other rather than continue her juggling she shucked her Job and became a homemaker when her son was born five years i found that i enjoyed being Home far More than i had anticipated and i found out i could and life could go on without a High High status my self image want dependent on my Job opting for diapers and feedings Over counselling corporations on pension and profit sharing plans was an agonizing admits she has since resumed working one Day a it was a Relief when i she i like taking care of my i resented the lady taking care of i want ready to relinquish control of my Home to someone Shes hardly a growing number of professional women who can afford to Are finding Hearth and Home More nourishing than getting in females comprised percent of the total work part of what were seeing is a backlash to the superwoman says Halle a Washington psychologist whose practice is 50 percent working it was a poorly conceived Model from the continues basically it told women to attach themselves to a male Model of which in its extreme form tends to be a very unbalanced it is not a Model of integration that says in going to take care of my Success and aggression needs As Well As my needs for now women Are finding out the same things that men Are finding out that work is very overrated As the sole source of your to think it was Only two decades ago that Betty Friedan enlightened an International sisterhood that the words Happy and housewife were a dreadful right i dont see women returning to the Home As an says Ann a senior vice president for Skelly and a new York firm that monitors social but we Are picking up on an increasing recognition that having a career is not As rewarding As some women her company has no statistical evidence of women dropping out of the work or cutting Back on their but their studies Point to a shift in most women Are beginning to look at their employment in the broader concept of other roles they would like to including dropping out or sticking in Are equally acceptable in the eyes of the women feminism has always been about says feminist Pioneer Gloria founding editor of women must be free to choose the work they whether it be inside or outside of the to one Mother who walked away from a vice presidency at a glittery Public relations when Young kids Are involved the woman place is in the if youre going to have its realty selfish not to stay says Janle of who has two toddler i dont care what they say about raising its not the Quantity of its the you cant possibly give kids All they need in a couple of hours of she misses the Challenge of running the firms entertainment a position that meant late tight deadlines and working with big i miss putting deals together and the satisfaction of up photo Jane Cohen has no regrets about trading her career for the time to care for daughter knowing i succeeded at something that was at the reinforcement is no one tells you How terrific you Are anymore or How important you youve got to instill that in but my husband was really proud of me and Hes really proud of me he knows How difficult it is to run a i he  do what i do its not Only Domestic tugging that cause women who Are financially Able to abandon some say its purely for selfish i quit for says Jane who left her Jet charged new York Job two years ago and re located with her husband to i was getting burned i could feel myself losing Cohen had been running one of the largest medical libraries in the was on the faculty of the Sinai school of wrote for prominent served on All the right committees and was earning close to a i was doing so i was afraid id never she when her a had an Opportunity to become a resident at a Dallas Cohen encouraged the move so that shed have a reason to step off the fast the transition was i began to do a lot of things i always wished i could do if i didst she like being committed to an exercise i would run every i began to Volunteer at the Dallas museum of i was not taking Bubble Baths All i was doing nonprofessional kinds of activities that were fulfilling to i was never not even for a taking time off to indulge herself helped mentally prepare Cohen for child when her first baby was born last she now that Ive taken time off to be in willing to devote my time to a she has also gone Back to work part time As head of her own Jane can do a firm offering miscellaneous services to individuals and Small not every woman relishes the thought of easing out of Sara a Washington feels she would be letting her profession i feel a social responsibility to practice Medicine at least until in says because women have fought hard enough to gain positions in medical schools and we should fulfil our her Peers feel the same she adds i dont know a single doctor who has dropped out of Medicine to have a but Many have chosen different kinds of practices that Are very easy to work such As a Laboratory kind of or work with a health maintenance Imershein wants but will plan on employing liven we plan to use part of my income to pay for child when children Are of school its easier to strike a says Marina a full time Public relations partner in a Washington management consulting she took two six month maternity leaves with each of her Ages 4 and but Shes Clear where her priorities i went Back to work with the understanding that my schedule could be explains my kids Are in but i feel that its terribly important to be Home when they Are and i take time off from work to attend school perform car Pool assignments or deliver my children to a friends in Able to keep a balance Between work and if that situation changes for if one of my children got sick i would give up clients left and Overall fulfilment can Only come from realizing ones advises psychologist i dont think you can have it she you Are not going to be Able to discover the cure for have five have a Good play Golf twice a and eat the Pioneer women were really the original and they had seven slowed 90 baked made sheared sheep but they All died at age