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I understand the instinct. When something happens that forces us to confront the way women are treated in our culture, mothers look at the little boys sitting at their kitchen tables and think: Not mine. I will teach him better. I will make sure he respects women. I will raise a good man. And yes. We should. But something about that response has been bothering me.

You can deeply love your career and hate the thought of leaving your baby all day. You can want the promotion and want to breastfeed during the workday. You can want to build something professionally and still desperately want to be around for the tiny moments that disappear much too quickly. There is nothing contradictory about any of that. Motherhood doesn't make women less ambitious. It makes the need for better systems impossible to ignore.

Women’s health is at risk as restrictive laws delay critical care. Beyond politics, it’s about protecting our mothers, daughters, and friend