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Gender Challenges & motherhood

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How to Raise a Feminist Son

We raise our girls to fight stereotypes and pursue their dreams, but we don’t do the same for our boys.

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Trans Man Argues Against Being Called Child’s Mother at Appeal Court

Freddy McConnell’s lawyer says judge was wrong to say ‘mother’ was not a gendered term.

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I’m a Scientist and Mother. When I Lost my Job During the Pandemic, I Almost Gave Up

Supportive colleagues helped this researcher avoid repeating a past mistake of quitting prematurely.

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The Second Shift: Arlie Hochschild

Professor Arlie Hochschild examined what really happens in dual-career households.

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Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less

Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu struggled to accomplish everything she thought she needed to in order to succeed.

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‘Motherhood Penalty’ in Worse Pay at Work

Mothers earn 3% per hour less for each child they have compared with women working in similar jobs who do not have children, say researchers.

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The Mommy Effect: Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood? | Jessica Pan

After decades of convergence, the gender gap in employment outcomes has recently plateaued in many wealthy countries, despite the fact that women have increased their investment in human capital over this period.

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Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

Day in, day out, women anticipate and manage the needs of others. In relationships, we initiate the hard conversations. At home, we shoulder the mental load required to keep our households running. At work, we moderate our tone, explaining patiently and speaking softly.

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This is Why Mothers Have So Much Emotional Labor

It’s called emotional labor. And mothers have a lot of it.

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The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood

Krys Malcolm Belc’s visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood—conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding his son Samson—eventually clarified his gender identity. Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender.

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