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Why Women Still Can’t Have It All
What many don’t see is the severe impact this is all having on women – the damage of pregnancy and maternity discrimination on our mental health, the pressure to be perfect, the physical exhaustion of attempting to do it all, the struggle with the lack of power and control because the system doesn’t work for us. It’s all too much.
Joeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
Women have internalized our own devaluation. No wonder many women with the privilege of making the choice are choosing not to have children. Child-rearing is arguably the most difficult path possible, a hero’s journey that leads us on harrowing adventures but for which we receive almost no credit.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
This growing decline in familial support for raising children—and college-educated women becoming the lynchpin for knowledge work in America— meant that demand for paid family services has increased dramatically. In the 1990s and 2000s, this question of how to support working parents became another front in the culture war.
Katherine Boyle • Can Zoom Save the American Family?
It’s because there’s still a widespread reverence for the “ideal worker.” We commonly define the ideal worker as someone who starts working in early adulthood and continues, full-time and full force, for 40 years straight. The concept reflects a breadwinner-homemaker model that dates back to the Industrial Revolution and functioned fairly well thr
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