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When mothers project gendered fears onto their children's dreams

My daughter told me she wants to be a firefighter and my first instinct was to worry about her getting hurt, but then I realized I never had that fear when my son said the same thing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Internalized gender limitations can unconsciously shape how we guide the next generation's possibilities.

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