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The Gift That Keeps On Giving

For many families, the so-called "motherhood penalty" is not a bug. It's a feature

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I don’t normally write off a single tweet but Stella Creasy MP has such a note-perfect professional-managerial class striver take on motherhood that I can’t let it pass unacknowledged. She reports:

As I walk past everyone going to Christmas parties and drinks on my way to get the kids…

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