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The following is an excerpt from a NYT article. How would you respond to the question highlighted in the second to last

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The following is an excerpt from a NYT article. How would yourespond to the question highlighted in the second to last paragraphfrom our class? Write around two paragraphs. Userelevant class material, avoid fluff.
"Cynthia Liu is precisely the kind of high achiever Yale wants:smart (1510 SAT), disciplined (4.0 grade point average),competitive (finalist in Texas oratory competition), musical(pianist), athletic (runner) and altruistic (hospital volunteer).And at the start of her sophomore year at Yale, Ms. Liu is full ofambition, planning to go to law school.
So will she join the long tradition of famous Ivy Leaguegraduates? Not likely. By the time she is 30, this accomplished19-year-old expects to be a stay-at-home mom.
Much attention has been focused on career women who leave thework force to rear children. What seems to be changing is thatwhile many women in college two or three decades ago expected tohave full-time careers, their daughters, while still in college,say they have already decided to suspend or end their careers whenthey have children.
"At the height of the women's movement and shortly thereafter,women were much more firm in their expectation that they couldsomehow combine full-time work with child rearing," said Cynthia E.Russett, a professor of American history who has taught at Yalesince 1967. "The women today are, in effect, turningrealistic."
While the changing attitudes are difficult to quantify, theshift emerges repeatedly in interviews with women Ivy Leaguestudents. The interviews found that …roughly 60 percent, said thatwhen they had children, they planned to cut back on work or stopworking entirely. About half of those women said they planned towork part time, and about half wanted to stop work for at least afew years.
"It really does raise this question for all of us and for thecountry: when we work so hard to open academics and otheropportunities for women, what kind of return do we expect to getfor that?" said Marlyn McGrath Lewis, director ofundergraduate admissions at Harvard, who served as dean forcoeducation in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
It is a complicated issue and one that most schools have notaddressed. The women they are counting on to lead society arelikely to marry men who will make enough money to give thema real choice about whether to be full-time mothers,unlike those women who must work out of economic necessity."
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