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Why more people are choosing to "put motherhood on ice"

by Kristin Schwab , Maria Hollenhorst and Sofia Terenzio
Jul 10, 2024
A relatively new corporate benefit is leading to a rise in egg-freezing procedures. Emma Goldberg of The New York Times explains.
In recent years, more people have chosen to freeze their eggs in order to focus on their careers without simultaneously juggling the responsibilities of having a child.
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August 15th is Mothers' Equal Pay Day this year

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer , Erika Soderstrom and Alex Schroeder
Aug 14, 2023
In other words, it takes eight extra months for working mothers to finally catch up to what fathers made in 2022.
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For incarcerated women with newborns, an Indiana prison unit offers a chance to bond

by Alisa Roth
Dec 27, 2022
The women learn child care skills and are paid prison wages to take care of their babies.
Jessica Adams and her son Dawson will live on a maternal unit at the Indiana Women’s Prison until she is released.
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After a career pivot, one woman is balancing teaching, law school and motherhood

by Andie Corban
Jun 15, 2022
Catherine Fink of Colorado said this was the year she felt "most frazzled, just in terms of having to be basically at three full-time jobs."
Fink just completed her 18th year of teaching, and this year she also took law school courses.
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What the Supreme Court's possible Roe v. Wade reversal would do to the economy

by David Brancaccio and Alex Schroeder
May 3, 2022
We spoke to economics professor Caitlin Knowles Myers about the causal effects of abortion.
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Is the startup world OK with motherhood yet?

by Kai Ryssdal
Mar 15, 2019
Journalist Eliza Boyd says the “needle is moving” when it comes to pregnancy and venture capital.
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Busting the motherhood myth of "having it all"

by Amy Scott and Bennett Purser
Nov 15, 2018
A journalist and parent digs into how our ideas of motherhood came about in the U.S.
A cropped version of journalist Amy Westervelt's book.
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"Why can't I make ends meet? Why can't I make this math work?"

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Jun 28, 2018
In her new book, Alissa Quart examines the lives of middle-class families struggling to get by.
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Working as a nurse but wishing to be a mom

by Emily Henderson
Sep 6, 2017
Joy O'Brien is a nurse practitioner who wants children, but with $2,100 a month in student debt, she can't afford to adopt.
A patient has her blood pressure checked by a registered nurse practitioner during a checkup in Wellington, Florida.
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