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Overwhelmed:
…a career doesn’t have to travel in a straight line… while work is important, life is bigger.
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150 |
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Overwhelmed:
Grousing about how little husbands do at home is a regular and tiresomely predictable social exchange.
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156 |
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Overwhelmed:
There’s a myth that you can have everything. You can’t. But you can have time for the things that are more important to you. – Jessica DeGroot
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164 |
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Overwhelmed:
…surveys have found that arguing over housework is one of the main sources of conflict in relationships.
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164 |
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Overwhelmed:
…men tend to have a choice whether to be involved in domestic duties. They tend to do only chores they like and tend to care for their kids only when they’re in a good mood.
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165 |
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Overwhelmed:
For women… home, no matter how filled with love and happiness, is just another workplace.
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165 |
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Overwhelmed:
…in surveys around the globe, women are more likely to report more chronic stress and the feeling that life is out of control than men.
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166 |
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Overwhelmed:
…America has among the highest percentage of working mothers of any country.
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174 |
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Overwhelmed:
Cultural ideals, like the ideal mother, are by their very nature unattainable.
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177 |
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Overwhelmed:
The cult of intensive motherhood… runs on guilt, fear, and ambivalence.
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179 |
