If I say to you “working mom,” what image pops into your mind? A girlboss with a baby in a briefcase? An employee who can’t be fully committed to the job? A harried-looking woman who feels guilty all the time and can’t find 10 minutes to take a damn shower?

Judging by falling birthrates and declining intentions to have children, a growing share of educated women are evidently deciding that working motherhood is so unappealing they’ll just opt out of having kids. And as a working mom myself, I’m not going to say it’s always a rose garden. The United States certainly makes it harder than it needs to be, between the lack of paid leave, the high cost of child care, and a million other policy choices.

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Working Moms Have a Secret: We Love Our Jobs

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12.05.2024

If I say to you “working mom,” what image pops into your mind? A girlboss with a baby in a briefcase? An employee who can’t be fully committed to the job? A........

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