The Best of Reason: Is Being a Mom Bad for Your Career?

A recent study shows that women experience a short-term "motherhood penalty," but their earnings rebound within a decade.

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The Best of Reason: Is Being a Mom Bad for Your Career?

This week's featured article is "Is Being a Mom Bad for Your Career?" by Elizabeth Nolan Brown. This article originally appeared in print under the headline "There's More to the 'Motherhood Penalty.'"

This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.

Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL S and "Sunsettling" by Man With Roses

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[Don't look at me!]

Yes, it is. Stay at home and be a good mom instead.

[Chumby]

Having a career is bad for you being a mom.

[Rick James]

If your daughter ends up on the pole, it's a win for sex work.

[Chumby]

And a win for editors that are paid to write articles about sex work.

[mad.casual]

I like how feminism has turned into bleaching every last historical, biological, and spiritual or intellectual notion of womanhood out of any culture in order to free women into becoming worker drones that incidentally incur gestation pod duties.

To the point that you couldn't possibly mistake the ideology for male chauvinism because men couldn't possibly hate women that much.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

Well said

[It's only a paper moon, Nominalists]

IF IF IF being a good mother is not as valuable as being the VP at Wally's World's Best Auto Parts.
Bullshit

[Rick James]

In local news, the South Lake Union Trolley... the train that literally no one rides is finally getting a critical eye by the city.

The South Lake Union streetcar went into service in 2007 to a pop-music classic’s amplified declarations to “join hands” and “start a love train.”

Seattle City Councilmember Rob Saka isn’t feeling it anymore.

Saka, who leads the council’s Transportation Committee, has called for a plan to “thoughtfully retire” the 1.3-mile line in this year’s city budget process. The millions it costs to operate the little-used streetcar — estimated at $4.4 million in 2025 — would go to other transit services, Saka said.

“We need to make sure we’re getting the most bang for our buck,” he said Tuesday, emphasizing that no decision has been made. His proposed budget amendment, co-sponsored by Councilmembers Bob Kettle and Cathy Moore, has a deadline for “terminating” the streetcar’s service — from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center past Amazon’s urban campus to Westlake Station — by next fall.

This is yet another green debacle that city leaders-- including our former pederast mayor pushed to the tune of a gajillion dollars, and used "facts and science" to show that it would carry tens of thousands of riders a day.

[Rick James]

When the SLUT can't find anyone to ride her, it's time to retire.

[It's only a paper moon, Nominalists]

So, logic goes straight to the real point: Being a Mom is not a career at all. Pure Hillary. What happened to
https://makemothersmatter.org/mmm-calls-for-recognition-and-support-of-mothers-as-part-of-social-justice/

MMM calls for recognition and support of mothers as part of Social Justice

[It's only a paper moon, Nominalists]

It can make you the ultimate one to whom we owe thanks for the end of slavery
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother” is a famous quote by Abraham Lincoln

[Peter Kreeft taught me LOGIC, BEWARE !!!!!!!]

ON your deathbed you could give a shit about being CEO but care greatly that your marriage(s) family and social life was crap.
WE all die alone but some more alone.

Fame , prestige, honorl--- Can you name Pres Lincoln's VP? I bet note one in one hundred can.

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother" are the famous words by Abraham Lincoln about his mother, Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln so in Heaven when all the female CEO's are stunned at the magnificence of Lincoln , he will point to the woman they would never want to be, his 'angel mother'

[Peter Kreeft taught me LOGIC, BEWARE !!!!!!!]

Most women would act differently if they had caring sisters.
The MANY MANY women who don't want an abortion get nothing from Hillary, Kamala, Biden , or PP
after decades in the moverment the real solution is in this group" Feminists for Life.
"Feminists for Life of America recognizes that abortion is a reflection that our society has failed to meet the needs of women. We are dedicated to systematically eliminating the root causes that drive women to abortion — primarily lack of practical resources and support — through holistic, woman-centered solutions. Women deserve better® than abortion."

"We do not eliminate poverty by eliminating poor women’s children. It is degrading to poor women to expect or imply that their children aren’t welcome. We believe that poor women deserve the same support and life-affirming alternatives as wealthy women."

, black women are 5 times
more likely to have an abortion than white
women. A recent study released by
Protecting Black Life, an outreach of Life
Issues Institute concluded that, “79% of
Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion
facilities are strategically located within
walking distance of African and/or
Hispanic communities.”
AND
“Since the number of current living blacks
(in the U.S.) is 31 million, the missing 10 million represents
an enormous loss for, without abortion, America’s black
community would now number 41 million persons. It would
be 35 percent larger than it is currently. Abortion has swept
through the black community cutting down EVERY FOURTH MEMBER "