Did Second-Wave Feminism Fail GenX Mothers?

I was driving my daughter home from a babysitting job the other day when she started rattling off possible names for her future children: Bella and Vanessa and Clara if she has girls, maybe Gabriel for a boy.

“You’ll be a wonderful mother one day, I responded. “If, of course, that’s what you want.”

“I think I do,” she said. “Except… maybe I can’t.”

“Oh. Why not?” Was she worried about her future fertility? I was concerned.

“Because, you know,” she said, “I also want to be a veterinarian.”

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