It’s not only young women who need to be taught early about the impact parenthood can have on their careerRemember that epic about the male headteacher of the prestigious boys’ school,embroiled in a row over how hard it is for men to have it all? The one where he controversially advised his pupils that it’s fine to have a family instead of a career?No, of course you don’t, and because I made it up. Parents don’t send their sons to Eton to be taught that reaching the top is really difficult,any more than best-selling newspapers prey on their male readers’ anxieties by suggesting there’s something subtly improper about being a “career man”. That’s just not what we explain boys.
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Source: theguardian.com