I’m at the end of a super long work week, one where I saw even less of Minnow than usual, and one that’s leaving me wondering whether my priorities need adjusting.
But here’s the thing: making a workplace more family friendly is a fight that cannot be one by women alone. Women cannot be the only ones making a ruckus in the workplace and fighting with themselves, their peers and their bosses to effect change. If we make a nurturant woman’s workplace more friendly but not her partner’s, it means the woman is always being flexible, always ceding her own wishes, because it is more permissive in her workplace.
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