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Where are the men?
Why is this yet another story about the "plight of the working mother" with no mention of husbands and male partners and the compromises they should have been making? Single mothers excluded, of course, but if this is all about the woman who returns to work after raising children, it means that there must have been another breadwinner in the picture somewhere.
I'm just going to keep asking this, over and over, until men, collectively, recognize that they're just going to have to change if they "want it all"--the happy marriage, the successful career, the well-bred children. This isn't the 1950s, boys--you're going to have to pitch in and make some sacrifices. And it's not going to be easy. Just ask the women, who've been putting up with this garbage for decades.
