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Jessica Valenti

Kids Don’t Damage Women’s Careers — Men Do

Stop blaming motherhood for a problem created by fathers

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One of the most pernicious modern myths about motherhood is that having kids will damage your career. Women are told that we need to choose between our jobs or our children, or that we’ll spend our most productive work years “juggling” or…

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