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  Mothers who regret having children are speaking up like never before

  macleans.ca

  Photoillustration by Stephen Gregory & Heshmat Saberi ‘I regret having children’ In pushing the boundaries of accepted maternal response, women are …

• K. B. Pok

  

  The Pao Effect Is What Happens After Lean In

  WIRED - Jessi Hempel

  Ellen Pao's Reset is ushering in a new corporate code. We should listen. There were so many times Ellen Pao could have taken money in exchange for …

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  Scientists assumed that patriarchy was only natural. Bonobos proved them wrong

  Quartz - Angela Saini

  My favorite exhibit at California’s San Diego zoo is the bonobo enclosure. Not because this is a ridiculously randy species (seriously, any age or sex will suffice). Not even because they, alongside chimpanzees, are the species most closely related to humans. But because they live in what some …

• Control women's bodies, medical bias

  K. B. Pok

  

  The Devastating Effects of a 1940s 'Wonder Pill' Haunt Women Generations Later

  VICE - Amanda Arnold

  DES was a form of synthetic estrogen marketed to women in the mid-20th century, and an estimated five to 10 million women took it while pregnant. The drug was later found to cause miscarriage and a rare form of vaginal cancer in girls. In the throes of puberty,14-year-old Su Robotti had developed …

• Masculinity and jobs- not that there are no jobs, no jobs in fields men view as beneath them, as women's work.

  K. B. Pok

  

  Why Men Don’t Want the Jobs Done Mostly by Women (Published 2017)

  The New York Times - Claire Cain Miller

  It hasn’t been a great time to be a man without a job. The jobs that have been disappearing, like machine operator, are predominantly those that men do. The occupations that are growing, like health aide, employ mostly women. One solution is for the men who have lost jobs in factories to become …

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  When Women Choose Children Over a Career

  The Atlantic - By Hana Schank and Elizabeth Wallace

  “I went to a job interview after my first daughter was born and cried the whole way home.” This is the third story in a seven-part series looking at women’s ambitions in the years following college. When we began interviewing our former classmates at Northwestern, we expected to encounter a few …