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"Especially pregnant people of color who experience these mortalities and morbidities, they now have a way to feel heard and feel seen and not be scared."
SHARE Photo by Jonathan Borba via Unsplash Working mothers want all of their children to lead happy and fulfilled lives. Nevertheless, they often exert extra effort so their daughters will ably navigate the male-dominated world of work. Second-wave feminists during the late twentieth century inspired mothers “to not only rethink their own position in society but also prepare their daughters to be new sorts of women,” Amy Westervelt noted in her book Forget “Having It All”: How America Messed Up Motherhood—and How to Fix It. That’s why many first-generation Power Moms became ...