“Framing how to balance work and family as personal choices, researchers say, distracts from the bigger structural issues that force these choices. Individuals are left to figure out how to make it work — and feel guilty when it doesn’t …

“The language also hides inequalities based on gender, race and wealth. Very few parents have enough money to choose whether to opt out of paid work entirely. And when politicians talk about parents making choices, it’s really about mothers — rarely is a man asked how he divides his time between work and family.”
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Read article by Claire Cain Miller from The New York Times.