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Are We Facing a Generational Wipeout of Working Mothers?

COVID lockdowns forced working parents to find a way to reconcile their jobs with the burdens of homeschooling and household management. And who is doing the lion’s share? Working moms, says Joan C. Williams. She is the founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California, and she tells Michel Martin about the increasingly impossible dilemma of the working mom.

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