"... educated women’s career trajectories often have a different shape—based on their wider interests and a common desire to have flexible or part-time work whe

"... educated women’s career trajectories often have a different shape—based on their wider interests and a common desire to have flexible or part-time work when their families are young—and an accelerated pace later on." She's getting to a point I'd like to emphasize. A new pregnancy changes a woman into what's almost a third kind of biological human: a mother. A father? Meh. But meanwhile, our economic paymasters can only promise a new mother "If you take an unpaid 6 mos absence, we'll probably hire you back for a full-time (only) position". This seems unfair at best, and diabolical at worst. But that's the US. I'm struggling to get across my true thoughts on this, but I think we should pay more attention to the mother-child dynamic.