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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the 1980s my mom was the first woman in her very large consulting firm to make partner.

She hid her pregnancies from colleagues. They never knew she was pregnant. Scheduled a c-section on a Friday, back to work on Monday. I met some of her colleagues when I was ten and they were shocked she had kids, they’d known her 20+ years and she never talked about us.

I also never, ever saw her. She never had dinner with us. She was gone when I woke up in the morning, and not home from work when I went to sleep. She’d often go to work on the weekend. She never attended a school event. I had holidays with her, though I remember she’d get home at 6 pm on Christmas Eve and would seem exhausted.

[b]She also says she was constantly sexually harassed but she has no patience for the #me too movement because she thinks women just need to suck it up (!)[/b]. [/quote]

My stepmom is like this, too! She wasn't an exec, but worked in a law firm her whole life. [/quote]

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