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How early girls internalize career limitations around anticipated motherhood

My teenage daughter is already talking about choosing college majors based on work-life balance for future motherhood while my son just picks what interests him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The premature narrowing of educational and career choices reveals how anticipated gender roles constrain possibilities before they're even explored.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gender inequality — structural analysis?”

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