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No One Is Coming to Save Us LIVE: Unpacking the Child Care Crisis

The pandemic has brought the fault lines and inequities in our social sectors into sharp focus, perhaps most glaringly child care. The economic and social impacts of our failure to publicly invest in child care have become untenable not only for parents, but also for early educat ...  Show more

Why We Need to Stop Saying “Working Mother” (with Katherine Goldstein)

Gloria gets a lesson from journalist Katherine Goldstein about why she no longer uses the term “working mother.” Katherine, who is also the founder of The Double Shift newsletter, podcast, and community, explains why the phrase devalues caregiving, and how it creates an artificia ...  Show more

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