Jessica Valenti

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

Stop blaming motherhood for a problem created by fathers

Jessica Valenti
GEN
Published in
4 min readSep 13, 2018

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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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Jessica Valenti
GEN
Writer for

Feminist author & columnist. Native NYer, pasta enthusiast.