Yet in her writing she stressed his efforts to be a different man: to excel at work on the railroad, to be the paterfamilias for a family that grew to include three children.
An article on the website Salon recently located part of the blame for this supposed gap, for women at least, in the pernicious "good mother myth" – the impossible standards to which women hold themselves, the need to excel at work and at home, to be a brilliant boss, or employee, and a perfect mother.
At the very beginning of a post-graduate-school career, the family's bread-winner (for now) and the parent of an 18-month-old, this parent is facing the fact that to really excel at work, travel will be required.
Nobody will ever excel at work that his friends–and perhaps even he himself suspect to be morally reprehensible.
Bette was always allowed the space to excel at work, even when she was fired she ended up on top.
We do not expect men to excel at work and to also be at every family event and know every detail about their children's lives.
She brings 20 years of learning and development experience to each situation to help individuals and teams maximize their existing potential to excel at work.
The lessons I have learned from climbing have helped me excel at work, have endurance as an entrepreneur, and provided a new perspective in my personal relationships.
The couple, played by Lizzy Caplan and T. J. Miller, manages to excel at work, get out of tickets, and live without a care in the world, despite or because of the fact that they're permanently shit-faced.
The valuable part of this is the question it raises about how women are supposed to balance the self-acceptance preached at them from many directions with the desire to excel at work and maintain financial independence.
What a contrast between being a CEO with personal staff, an easy delivery and cooperative baby -- see how much wealth and resources must be dedicated to allowing this woman to excel at work?
