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You can't take Hollywood portrayal of American life to be the truth, it's far, far from the truth. The reality is that women are slightly mistrusted in American industry because many of them do still drop the career to have families. (I'm not saying they shouldn't, just that it does disrupt the business a bit so upper management are leery of them.) And when a woman does "take a break" from her career to have a family, when she decides to come back to work after a year or longer, she's almost certainly looking at starting at entry level again. (Unless she has connections, of course.) People in other countries who watch American TV need to understand that Hollywood likes to glorify and pretty things up. Just like how most of the actors are gorgeous. Compare most of American actors to most of British tv actors, for example. Another good example is the tv show "Married with Children". Here was a supposedly lower-middle-clbutt family, the breadwinner earns slightly above minimum wage, which means they're around poverty level in this country. And yet the stage sets show a large, nice house in a very nice neighborhood. They used a few gimmicks to illustrate how "low clbutt" the family was: the tacky couch, the old broken-down Dodge car, their tacky behavior in public, etc. But look at the clothes they wore, the jewelry, the suggested amount of money spent on beer and strip bars. Real, poor American families don't live like that.

- Sharon "Gravity... is a harsh mistress!"