We believe that a mother is automatically and naturally a multitasker, that once she has a child she will never again devote herself fully to any pursuit other than mothering.

During World War II, when the US government needed to attract female workers, it constructed and heavily subsidized neighborhood child care centers under a program called the Lanham Act. 

In 2007, Petronella Yvonne de Horde was attacked by a silverback gorilla at the Rotterdam zoo. This anecdote came to mind when I read Jennifer Grayson’s Unlatched: The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a Controversy. 

Here's a neat linguistic trick to help identify sexist thinking about the value of women's work. 

The original 1970 pamphlet “Women and Their Bodies,” which became the wildly popular and influential women’s health resource Our Bodies, Ourselves, outlined the following demands.