Working for the Woman was the way Harry made sense of the change in thought he had. When a person is working for the Man, they are working for a large organization, hence the position is one with less individual initiative. Working for the Man also means for some - the police - which casts an odd light on his contributions to unsolved crimes.
Working for the Woman was not the work he did directly for the women in his life, his sister, his wife, or his daughter.
Working for the Man wasn't an evil in Harry's mind, it just had limitation he had grown weary of. And maybe it wasn't the work so much, as the organizational style of working for the Man. Granted, Harry would be the first to admit working for the Man had advantages. Just in the possibility of getting something grand done requires an organization to generally pull in the same general direction.
Working for the Woman can still require an organization to pull in the same direction, too. Working for the Woman allowed more nuance and discussion in making choices. This did not mean one got less actually done. How often had working for the Man been a show of just doing something because you must not be standing around idle. The Woman requited one to be more observant and take action that might make the smallest of differences on the surface of the situation, but made larger impacts possible.
Maybe there was room for both. Maybe since the beginning of work, they had been there all along Man and Woman.
Efficiency and Exploration. Working for the Efficiency, or Working for the Exploration?
One way or another, the way he worked needed changing, and it did.
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