October 30, 2005 6:44 PM

Claire Huxtable or Edith Bunker?
Posted by Diane Danielsonat 6:44 PM

The Boston Sunday Globe BostonWorks' section reports on a Boston Club survey of successful Boston business women and found that a large number had mothers who encouraged them to work, and half had working mothers.

Of those surveyed, 50 percent said they had working mothers, and two-thirds said their mothers' decisions influenced their own career choices. At the same time, the Boston Club's report cited statistics from the Census Bureau, which showed that only 38 percent of women worked between 1960 and 1970. While no statistics were taken then on how many of that group were working mothers, that number is believed to be much lower, the report said.