Still, when Ms. Perry looks a decade into the future, she is not sure what her career will look like, or how her children will have turned out. She can point to thousands of senior male lawyers who are partners in big firms, and see how they have managed their lives. But there are very, very few women in that position today who also had children. There is no path. Sometimes even she wonders whether the commandment to break down barriers between the sexes was done with enough thought.
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