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Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Afghan women have been banned from working at their domestic UN office, new Pew research busts a common wage gap myth, and Fortune Well reporter L’Oreal Thompson Payton examines why so many working moms struggle with depression and anxiety. At least it’s Friday.
– Not alone. Late last month, I interviewed Nathalie Walton, CEO and cofounder of Expectful, a holistic wellness app for hopeful, expecting, and new moms, for a story about anxiety and depression in working moms. Shortly after, I got the dreaded midday call from daycare. You know, the one that inevitably involves you dropping what you’re doing to pick up your child, who has a low-grade fever and has to stay home for 24 hours while you juggle entertaining and educating a toddler with work responsibilities.
“Of course,” I muttered to myself after I got off the phone. “The irony.”
Since becoming a mom nearly 18 months ago, I’ve had several of these calls. By now I’m well accustomed to the multitasking mama juggling act, but the first one sent me into an anxiety spiral. That particular call involved my daughter’s first case of pink eye. I mentally berated myself for not knowing better, for not working ahead, for not adequately planning for the unexpected.
“How could you have?” my therapist asked me during the emergency session I’d convened to discuss said spiral.
“I don’t know,” I said softly. “Good moms are just supposed to know.” Because Good Moms always...
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