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When family treats professional success as compensation for personal failure

My mom keeps sending me articles about freezing my eggs and I want to tell her that my career is not a consolation prize for not having kids.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Achievement outside traditional female roles can be dismissed as inadequate substitutes for conventional fulfillment.

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