My Own Coping Activities: Single Working Women

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After reading this article, I found a few interesting points that I wanted to note before talking about my own coping activities. I’ve worked in the professional world for almost 20 years…and let me tell you, a single working woman is as egotistical, egocentric as a man. Period. The article kept mentioning a woman’s duties, mostly related to having a family; that’s interesting, and I believe to be a pretty big assumption. Most statistics are now showing women are choosing to focus on education and career before having a family now. In fact, more single women are enrolled in colleges than men.

As far as what the normal gender roles are, they are melting away fast. For instance, I’m in a relationship; my girlfriend, at 26, doesn’t cook,

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