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WomanSage member Dee Muir shared the following 1943 guide to hiring women.

It takes you back.

It makes you remember what employers thought of your mom.

Now, be honest, isn’t the workplace a much better place for women today?

I’ll be glad to hear your answers.

But first read this:

Welcome to the new WomanSage web site, the third version of WomanSage since we first went online seven years ago.

When we began this dialog with you, we asked you to fill out a survey – How Is My Life Different From My Mother’s?

More than 3,500 of you have responded to those questions over the past seven years.

Now we have another dialog for you.  It’s called “Live Close, Visit Often” and it has to do with our changing attitudes towards marriage and commitment after age 50.

You know, we’re pioneering a new way of growing older.  We’ve been shaped and molded by the Women’s Movement.  Whether we liked it or not, it’s changed the way we look at ourselves and society looks at us.

 We are very different from our mothers.

Many of us have been married more than once.

Some of us chose to never marry.

Others used the birth control pill, developed in our lifetimes, as a way to stay childless by choice.

I’m interested in exploring those questions and also a statistic that says 60 percent of the divorces in America are instituted by women 50 or older.

That’s an awesome piece of data.

What makes us feel so independent?  Why are so many of us willing to commit to a loving relationship but not marriage after 50?

How are our attitudes toward marriage and sex different from our mothers?

And what do our adult children, friends and relatives think about our lifestyles?

Take a few minutes and dialog with me.  There’s a survey at the end of this blog.  I would appreciate you filling it out and giving me your thoughts on this topic.

Thanks!

Survey Link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=600473719994