The 1990s and early 2000s saw motherhood idealised as a full-time occupation with mothers expected to quit work and stay at home — at the time 40% of people in the US believed mothers working would be harmful to their children.
By 2010 survey data suggested that 75% of US citizens believe a working mother ‘can establish just as warm and secure a relationship with her children as a mother who does not work’.
In light of this, this article looks at several women who had given up high-level jobs in the early 2000s to be stay-at-home mothers, and the effect this has had on their well-being and future career prospects.
Read more at the New York Times.