• The Rise of the Empty Nesters

  Posted Thursday, July 02, 2009 4:15 PM | By Liza Mundy
  
  
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  Speaking of being bummed out, I felt oddly blue after reading Mimi Swartz’s excellent piece in The Daily Beast about empty-nesters in the Obama administration. Swartz, who also writes for Double X about being an empty nester herself, talks about (and to) White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, and also offers up WH Social Secretary Desiree Rogers and First Lady Chief of Staff Susan Sher, among others, as collective proof that professional life isn't over for women—in some ways it's just beginning—when their kids leave for college. This may well be true, and it's striking to see so many redoubtable women in positions of power. I admit to a keen fascination with Jarrett and Rogers, who live in the same apartment building on the Georgetown canalfront and who I like to think of as popping into each other's apartments, like the cast of Seinfeld, or Mary Tyler Moore and Rhoda, borrowing clothes and gossiping ... (Read more at DoubleX.com.)
  Filed under: empty nest, Valerie Jarrett, Mimi Swartz, Desiree Rogers
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