1. Career Girls never devolves into soap opera, but remains a focused, complex portrayal of a friendship.

2. I'm a career girl, ie I concentrate on my career rather than getting married, etc.

3. For our purposes, a "career girl" has a university-level (or higher) education, works more than 35 hours a week outside the home and makes more than $30,000 a year.

4. Pamela thought for a moment of Roy, her favourite son, and Bernice, his wife - also a career girl.

5. The study also found that within each group there are usually clearly defined roles such as the agony aunt, the homemaker, the career girl, the socialiteand the quiet one.