The book is also a story of a professional woman's internal struggle to mesh career aspirations with marriage and family expectations imposed upon her by society and by her upbringing. It is a story sure to resonate with the current generation of professinal women who continue to struggle with the very same issues.
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Merle Updike Davis grew up during the Depression on a farm near Warrenton, Virginia. After graduating from Mary Washington College in 1944, at the end of World War II, she worked in child welfare in Fauquier County, in Richmond and in Arlington, Virginia. She attended George Warren Brown School of Social Work and received her Masters of Social Work degree from Columbia University in 1953. She moved to California in the '50s and worked as a psychiatric social worker at Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute in San Francisco and as psychiatric social work supervisor in Berkeley's Mental Health Services. She had a private practice in Berkeley and Albany, California until she retired in 1996.
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