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The End of Mom Guilt
(7) How do we reconcile ambition and the desire to do great work with motherhood?
sari azout • My Favorite Questions
“Constant guilt surrounds working women and mothers no matter what you decide to do.”
Katherine Kay • Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
Unlike her mother, my mom didn’t shirk the practicalities of the job. She read all the parenting theories, pursued all the extracurriculars for both of us and picked the right schools for us to attend. She ran our existence like air traffic control, and she made all that labor invisible. She was good at it, but it was just not who she wanted to be
... See moreElise Loehnen • Opinion | The Lies Mothers Tell Themselves and Their Children
Women are in the midst of a revolutionary reckoning with our ambitions. We’re not resigning en masse—because who can afford to quit her job in this economy?!—but we are trying to figure out a new set of goals and guidance for our professional lives. Thanks to long-simmering inequality and stubborn sexism, clarified by the pain of the pandemic, our ... See more
Ann Friedman • What Comes After Ambition?
We face a whole array of challenges in this area, from basic considerations, like earning enough money, to worrying about how we’ll be perceived by people around us for taking a different approach to work and life, to even feeling a sense of guilt for “giving up” what so many hardworking women struggled to have the opportunity to achieve.