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On being a scientist and a mother at the same time

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Nursing my son to sleep, I contemplated Marie Curie. By Nadja Cech

November 17, 2022 Culture

I’m a single working mom, trying to do it all in a pandemic. It’s really hard.

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I have a full-time job and yet I still feel like I’m waiting for my ex-husband to see me as an equal human. By Katherine Sargent

October 21, 2021 Family, 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

How being a latchkey kid has affected me as a working mom

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I bought the ‘having it all’ narrative like so many other women of my generation. But I didn’t read the fine print. By Virginia Fundora

June 16, 2021 Parenting Challenges

Parenting by the clock, but learning how to live in the moment

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Now if something takes too long, it means we’re late for something else. By Fiona Leary Boucher

February 4, 2020 Culture

How my baby restores me at the end of the work day

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I arrive at the office. I mime professional. Am I a professional? For months my identity was pure and unquestioned: mother of an infant. By Janelle Ward

May 10, 2019 Culture, Family

Why Serena Williams matters, now more than ever

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Serena has arguably done as much for working moms in the past year as she’s done for tennis in the past decade. By Mary Pflum Peterson

July 12, 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

On being a part-time working mom

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Mothers are not static entities. We evolve in this role, as in any other.
By Lauren Apfel

July 25, 2017 Culture
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