From the Editors. The Choices that Confine Us. In 1989, HBR asked readers to think about women in the workplace -specifically, about the costs to companies of managing working mothers. Thirteen years later, provocative new research presented in this issue will have you considering whether today's high-achieving female professionals-many of them single and childless-have sacrificed too much in their quest to "have it all."

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