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stay-at-home mom

On pie charts, motherhood, and my uneasy relationship with feminism

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My decision to stop working felt retrograde, a betrayal of my gender. By Jenny Raj

December 15, 2022 Culture

How is it that we’re still asking what stay-at-home moms do all day?

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Having choices, not just careers, is fundamental to feminism. By Liz Sjaastad

February 16, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Mothers are rethinking how to return to the workforce post pandemic

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The last 18 months have clarified one thing for me— my job was not worth what I had been giving up to keep it. By Laura Longhine

October 19, 2021 Culture

Struggling to find my purpose after being a stay-at-home mom

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You finally have the freedom you’ve been dreaming about for years, but you don’t know what to do with it. By Laura Carraro

July 14, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

On being a mother who still doesn’t know who she is

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I am a woman who sometimes needs a glass of wine or two in the evening, because even though her boys are no longer babies, five to six o’clock is still the witching hour. By Fiona Leary Boucher

March 7, 2019 Culture

How Halloween helped one mother rediscover her identity

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In New York City’s rush hour, a tush encased in orange tulle attracts less attention than you’d expect. By Jaime Levy Pessin

October 31, 2018 Culture

Is raising children “the hardest job in the world”?

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We can honor the importance of caregiving without taking away from the difficulties of balancing caregiving with a career outside the home. By Laura Longhine

October 26, 2017 Culture

Following the fishing line of my ambition

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Before I had kids, my mother told me: “Your career is the only thing you will ever have that is entirely your own.” By Adrienne So

October 3, 2017 Culture

Teaching kids that women can work and be moms at the same time

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We were unwittingly showing our daughter that being a mother excludes other possibilities.
By K.C. Willivee

February 28, 2017 Culture
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