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To: Ilaine who wrote (21737)	6/22/2006 1:05:31 PM
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If black women and poor white women look around and see that elite white women are almost nowhere to be found, almost none in the higher echelons of corporations, almost none in positions of power in government, almost none as wealthy entrepreneurs in their own right, why would they believe that working hard will pay off for them? Because there are numerous examples of successful women. Success is not defined solely by ascending to the highest levels of corporate hierarchies or highest government positions. So because some poor black teenager doesn't think she can become president of IBM, she should just have serial unwed pregnancies and forget about education, etc.? See, I don't buy the notion that women haven't made significant strides in the past few decades. There are opportunities. It's just easier to take the path of least resistance. Everyone wants to start at the top and doesn't want to work their way up the ladder. To inculcate change in attitude, the goals should be attainable. And reasonable goals are. The goals don't need to be the pinnacle of any profession to be worthy and worth attaining. JMO.

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