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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHart Radio. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to rethink

what is family-friendly. Sometimes jobs that aren't known for being

family-friendly can be more doable than you think. Today's tip, like some others this week, comes from

my book, I Know How She Does It, which came out 10 years ago this month.

For this book, I collected Time Diary Data from 1001 Days in the Lives of Women with Big Careers and Families, to see what life really looked like.

It turns out that in the 168 hours of a week, there is time to work, have family time,

sleep, exercise, read, or whatever else people choose to do.

Lots of women and men, quietly and successfully, do have it all.

Anyway, I collected data from women in all sorts of fields that have not, historically, been

known for being family-friendly.

Law, medicine, finance, tech, consulting, you name it.

And yet these women often had a ton of control of their time.

And the higher up the latter they were, the more autonomy they had. They also

earned enough that they could afford the help they needed to deal with any potential challenges.

For instance, a woman working at a hedge fund told me that, despite her field's reputation,

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