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When family expectations reduce career achievement to a phase

My mother keeps asking when I'm having children and I realized she sees my career success as temporary until I fulfill my 'real purpose' as a mother.

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What we've seen

Generational differences in women's roles create intimate conflicts between personal ambition and familial approval.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Gender inequality — structural analysis?”

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