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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just having a kid impacted my career in a way that makes me the one best positioned to step back from work in this situation. I got mommy-tracked when I was pregnant ("we have to take this off your hands since you won't be here for closing"), struggled to catch up when I came back from maternity leave, and wound up transferring to a more flexible position with minimal travel before my kid turned one because I was so miserable and stressed (and dealing with PPD) that I had to scale back somewhere.

So yes, my career is the easiest to hit pause on now, because it already took a huge hit in both trajectory and pay several years ago. This isn't me "stepping back". This is an economic system that just ignores pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood as valuable acts, and the people who perform the get screwed. The end.

Stop blaming women for not conquering institutionalized sexism all by themselves with individual choices that are often dictated by forces beyond our control.[/quote]

Well said![/quote]

Sad that this is the state of women in the workplace in USA. No other developed country in the world is so anti-women and anti-family. But then we also have tRUMP as President. So I guess everything bad that happens to this country, it is its Karma. [/quote]

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