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Tia Smallwood remembers what it was like to attend college in the late 1960s, when women were struggling to break out of traditional fields. She talks to her daughter about her unusual first job interview and the complicated choice she had to make between motherhood and career.
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NPR's Morning Edition March 7, 2008
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INTRO:Today we hear from Tia [Tee-Ah] Smallwood. Tia attended Douglass College at Rutgers University in the late 1960s. She was an economics major and often one of the only female students in her classes. Here she tells her daughter Christine about that time.
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"When I went to college...it's complicated."
Tia Smallwood with her daughter, Christine, at StoryCorps in New York. Their interview will be archived --- along with all the others -- at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. Subscribe to the StoryCorps PODCAST ... at NPR-dot-ORG.
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