A lawyer and I stepped into a windowless conference room in her office building in Washington, and she reflexively closed the door. I had forgotten to restock my tissues and would soon regret that.
By then, I had been interviewing American mothers about their work-family conflict for several weeks. I asked women I had just met what their bosses said to them when they announced a pregnancy, what their parental leave was like, if they could ever work remotely when a child was sick.
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