The Math Behind Working Moms Doesn’t Add Up
She cooks, she cleans, she brings home the bacon — yet you wouldn’t know any of that by looking at the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ monthly jobs report.
No time to sleep on the job.
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Nobody tells you that when you turn 30, your social feeds suddenly begin to split at the seams. Half the people I follow are sipping extra dirty martinis at 2 a.m. and the other half are filling sippy cups with breastmilk — also at 2 a.m. It’s a strange, albeit enlightening algorithm. I’ll be honest: I had no idea just how difficult it was to simply keep another human alive! The burp cloths, the breast pumps, the sleepless nights … moms truly are beasts, and we ought to be appreciating them way more often than one measly Sunday in May.