PROLOGUE
Your train is traveling
South at 73 miles per hour.
Mine is headed north doing 68.
How long will it take us to arrive at
Our separate definitions?
What time shall we begin, for real?
What time can we call it home?
—KATE RUSHIN, WORD PROBLEMS
WHETHER YOU COME to this book traveling south at seventy-three miles per hour or heading north at sixty-eight, whether you see yourself staring out from its front cover or from its back, you are probably familiar with the struggle for professional identity.
You are hardly alone.
Our Separate Ways represents an eight-year research effort spotlighting the life and career struggles of successful black and white women in corporate America. We found, as we conducted our studies, that women come ...
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