Why is the balance between work and family primarily posed as a women’s issue?
This snapshot of middle-class parenthood, including personal stories from dozens of mothers, highlights the connection between modern struggles and remaining historical expectations. Despite massive opportunity growth, middle-class women are trapped in an unsupportive system, wondering: Will the story change?
VOICES
Photos from several featured mothers
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Elisabeth O'Donnell
Elisabeth O’Donnell has almost always lived in Easton, Massachusetts. Her favorite color is blue. When she was little it was purple and sometimes she will still say purple, just for old times’ sake. She prides herself on having two middle names and being a particularly fast-walker.
She is not a mother or a breadwinner, and is not planning on either anytime soon, but hopes that her future includes work she loves, such as writing about issues of inequality, and affords for time outside of the office. She worked in an office once. It was so freezing cold that she kept blankets in her desk throughout the 90 degree summer. That is most definitely not "having it all."