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The case for working women

The Star, August 7 2007
Women should work and earn a living rather than heap unnecessary financial burdens upon themselves.
By PATSY KAM
AFTER a 24-hour flight from New York, the last thing you’d want to do is give a breakfast interview. But reporter, mother-of-two and author of the book The Feminine Mistake, Leslie Bennetts, kindly obliged […]

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Leslie Bennetts Summit speech

Recently I had lunch with a professional woman who has a successful career and two small children. The minute we sat down, she said, “I just can’t take the stress any more. It’s too hard trying to juggle everything. I’m going to ask my boss if I can work part-time instead of full-time.”
This woman knew […]

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No labels, please

By Francis Dass
The author of The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much? challenges FRANCIS DASS’s perception of a feminist.

THE gods MUST be crazy. I kept thinking that when I was assigned to interview a speaker at The Women’s Summit, Kuala Lumpur. Being old-fashioned, the thought of interviewing a feminist made me roll my […]

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