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Friday, December 9, 2005

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Off Ramping

Working women

Many moms have taken a detour from the fast track to stay home with their kids. But what happens when they want to merge back into their career? Work and Family correspondent Sarah Gardner reports.

There's a new entry in the dictionary of workplace lingo, Off-Ramping -- when working-women exit the career highway to have children. A study not so long ago said Moms who take at least a year off to stay home with their kids lose 18 percent of their earning power when they go back to work. (Photo: Janek Skarzynski (c) Getty Images)

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"I disagree with Diana Nyad, who told Bob Moon today that Americans are not interested in Wimbledon because there are so few Americans playing. I love watching tennis, no matter who is playing. I have watched tennis for years, but the networks toy with us, creating drama rather than showing the match. Oftentimes, televised matches end precisely when the allotted time expires, even if they have to cut and splice. When they don't, as happened in a Nadal match last weekend, we were left hanging at the end of two sets, as NBC switched to women's golf. I don't have cable TV, so I couldn't switch to MSNBC as was suggested. It's enough to make me turn off the TV and read about the matches online."

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