What Stalled The Gender Revolution? Child Care That Costs More Than College Tuition

Too-High Child Care Costs Stalled The Gender Revolution
A group of men and women march together holding signs while participating in an ERA protest in Pittsburgh, PA, 1976. (Photo by Barbara Freeman/Getty Images)
A group of men and women march together holding signs while participating in an ERA protest in Pittsburgh, PA, 1976. (Photo by Barbara Freeman/Getty Images)

I am probably a familiar type to you. I went to college, got a master’s degree, started a career, married, and had my first child late, at 35. I was working as editor-in-chief of a fiction magazine called Zoetrope: All-Story when I became pregnant. The magazine, founded and published by Francis Ford Coppola, had long struggled to get a financial foothold. Under my editorship it achieved just shy of breakeven and earned a number of literary awards. In my last trimester, however, I found myself fighting for my job. During the last month of my pregnancy, on the day of my baby shower, I was fired.

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