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Coming out as Academic Mothers. “Stop hiding the realities of motherhood. Say there’s a noon meeting you can’t attend because that’s when you have to pump your breast milk. Instead of vaguely tiptoeing around that fact, we encourage women to respond to those uncomfortable questions about why you can’t be at the meeting with the blunt truth: Since you asked, I can’t make the noon meeting because I need to pump breast milk at that time. Statements like these do the important work of normalizing motherhood in academe.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:04:40 +0000

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