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DoubleX Event: Women in Transition

Your Comeback editor and writer Emma Gilbey Keller is co-hosting a discussion with Park Slope Parents in Brooklyn on Monday, Oct. 5. We'll be talking about women leaving from and returning to the workplace. Are you thinking about switching careers? Are you coming back after taking time off to raise children? Are you mulling over leaving your job? We'll discuss it all. Please join us! Here are the details ... (Read more in DoubleX.)

"Your Comeback" Calling for Submissions: Military Moms

A post from Emma Gilbey Keller, editor of DoubleX's Your Comeback blog:

It strikes me that today’s military moms bear some resemblance to the medical moms of yesterday. Both doctors and soldiers choose intense schedules that pit saving lives against time away from the lives of their children. Both make huge sacrifices but can benefit from a significant financial payoff. Both continue to struggle for flexibility and recognition in a traditionally paternalistic system. The battles fought by mothers who were doctors 10 or 20 years ago sound remarkably similar to the professional struggles of those who serve in the armed forces now.

Yet the difference is obvious and stark. If ever there was an example that choice means giving rather than taking, it can be seen in the mothers in the military who are prepared to die for their country. The minutiae of their domestic tribulations pale in comparison to this greatest what if: What if they don’t come home and their kids are left motherless? ... (Read more in DoubleX.)

Come Back in Paperback

If you fear leaving your career briefly to raise a family, reading Emma Gilibey Keller's The Comeback: Seven Stories of Women who Went from Career to Family and Back Again, just out in paperback, will soothe your anxieties and inspire your return ... (Read more in DoubleX.)

Looking for Submissions: How Marriage Changes You

In our "Your Comeback" blog today, Emma Gilbey Keller writes about Allison Yarrow's decision to change her name when she got married—something Keller never thought she'd do. She's looking for more submissions from women whose relationships have inspired life changes: Did you convert as part of a committment? Did you move across the country or to another continent? Emma wants to hear from you at emma@thecomebackbook.com ... (Read more in Double X.)