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‘Motherhood Penalty’ in Worse Pay at Work

By Sean Coughlan — 2017

Mothers earn 3% per hour less for each child they have compared with women working in similar jobs who do not have children, say researchers.

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I Let My Child Create Their Own Gender Identity. The Experience Has Been a Gift for Us Both

We weren’t going to assign a gender or disclose their reproductive anatomy to people who didn’t need to know, and we were going to use the gender-neutral personal pronouns they, them and their.

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Kyl Myers
2020
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Explaining Nonbinary: How to Talk to Kids About Gender

Gender isn't limited to boys and girls, so it's time to break the habit of assuming people must be one or the other. The best place to start? Teaching the right concepts to our children.

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Amber Leventry
2020
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Hey, Wicked Stepmother, I Feel Your Pain!

How to stop hating yourself and your step-kid, as well.

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Jessica Schrader
2018
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Stepmoms Say Kamala Harris’s Embrace of Her Blended Family on the National Stage Was a Long-Awaited Moment

Kamala Harris, the vice president-elect, has no biological children, but embraces her two step children as her own.

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Kelly Burch
2020
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Why My Kids Don’t Call Me ‘Mom’

They call me Bapa.

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Ethan Somerman
2019
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On Trans Motherhood, and My Reality of Never Having Biological Children

“Maybe instead of biology, I should be cursing the culture that taught me I’m less of a woman because I can’t have children.”

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Mey Rude
2018
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Trans Man Argues Against Being Called Child’s Mother at Appeal Court

Freddy McConnell’s lawyer says judge was wrong to say ‘mother’ was not a gendered term.

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Robert Booth
2020
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How to Talk to Your Daughters (and Sons!) About Periods

Every woman has an awkward story about her period. And some of that awkwardness might be due to the fact that periods, although a completely natural and vital part of humanity, are shrouded in taboo (in fact, the word taboo, from the Polynesian word tapua, means “menstrual flow”)!

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Katie Hintz-Zambrano
2016
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12 Things to Say to Your Daughter to Encourage Healthy Sexuality

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends starting to teach children about sexuality as early as 18 months, which allows them to learn about themselves slowly and over time, just as they learn about absolutely everything else.

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Erin Feher
2019
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To My Daughter, With Love

Mother-daughter bonds within the Black community can be powerful counters against systemic oppression. We invited four moms to share their wisdom in open letters to their daughters.

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Patrice Peck
2021
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