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Claire Cain Miller
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@nytimes reporter covering gender and work for @UpshotNYT, nellie bly wannabe
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    Claire Cain Miller
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    Mar 24, 2021
    So many women have told me they settled for jobs that were less than they wanted because they’d let them pick up their kids when school ended or not take work home. What if most jobs let people do that? Seems worth considering as we figure out what a return to offices looks like.
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    Claire Cain Miller
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    Sep 10, 2018
    When I write about women in male-dominated professions, I often get asked whether it matters for men to be in female-dominated jobs like teaching. So I looked into it, and the answer is yes: it benefits students a lot, as does racial diversity.
    Zara Gibbon helps a new sixth grader at Animo Westside Charter Middle School in Los Angeles. A majority of teachers in American schools are white women.
    Does Teacher Diversity Matter in Student Learning? (Published 2018)
    From nytimes.com
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    Claire Cain Miller
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    Apr 26, 2019
    I have been writing about gender and work for a long time. But reporting this suddenly made a lot of things click:
    Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’ (Published 2019)
    From nytimes.com
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    Claire Cain Miller
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    Dec 28, 2018
    I did this story because this fact has continued to amaze me: Today, mothers who work outside the home spend THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME on interactive child care as stay-at-home mothers did in the 1970s.
    Renée Sentilles and her son Isaac eating dinner at their home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She is raising him in a much more hands-on way than she was raised.
    The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting (Published 2018)
    From nytimes.com
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    Claire Cain Miller
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    Nov 7, 2020
    There’s something about Kamala in her athleisure and her Converse. Today marks a lot of things, but one that can’t be overlooked is what it means that a woman in her position can just be herself. Pearls, pantsuits and pumps aren’t required to convince people that she’s enough.
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    Claire Cain Miller
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    Jun 4, 2019
    If the other parent can take a day off when a new mother is sick or needs sleep, there's a significant decrease in the likelihood that she'll need to be hospitalized or see a specialist or need antibiotics or anti-anxiety meds
    nytimes.com
    Sweden Finds a Simple Way to Improve New Mothers’ Health. It Involves Fathers. (Published 2019)
    The flexibility to have an extra person at home, even for a few days, offers significant postpartum benefits, new research shows.
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    Claire Cain Miller
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    Dec 23, 2020
    “Maybe that’s the lesson of Promising Young Woman: that you’d better stay on your toes, and that you’ll have to push back even when people would rather you just drop it. ... The more we idealize women, she told me, the more we rob them of what actually makes them interesting.”
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    Kyle Buchanan
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    Dec 23, 2020
    I profiled Carey Mulligan, who did not hold back. nytimes.com/2020/12/23/mov…
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    Claire Cain Miller
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    Nov 7, 2018
    A record number of women will be serving in Congress. Amid everything else, it's important to remember that makes a difference. Women govern differently, in the policies they push and the bipartisan collaboration they pursue:
    Senators Claire McCaskill, seated left, and Susan Collins, seated right, conferring with aides before the start of a hearing on Capitol Hill in April.
    Women Actually Do Govern Differently (Published 2016)
    From nytimes.com
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    Claire Cain Miller
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    Aug 6, 2020
    What parents are doing with their kids this school year has become contentious. But it's worth keeping in mind that for parents of young kids right now, THERE ARE NO GOOD CHOICES. Everyone has been left to figure it out for themselves (& made to feel guilty for whatever they do)
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    Claire Cain Miller
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    Jan 17, 2017
    Most people say it's still easier to be a man than a woman in American society -- except Republican men. nytimes.com/2017/01/17/ups…
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    Claire Cain Miller
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    May 18, 2021
    When schools closed, mothers were America's back-up plan. As society reopens, 1.3 million of them are still out of work. We hear a lot about the numbers. We can forget that each of their stories is personal. We owe it to them to listen and look:
    The Pandemic Created a Child-Care Crisis. Mothers Bore the Burden. (Published 2021)
    From nytimes.com
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    Claire Cain Miller
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    Oct 20, 2021
    “When paid leave is a right, we’re creating a foundation that helps address mental health outcomes, health care costs & economic strength at the starting line. Instead, we spend a fortune as a country paying into symptoms rather than causes.” Meghan Markle paidleaveforall.org/theduchessofsu…
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    Claire Cain Miller
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    Dec 2, 2021
    Mississippi, arguing that Roe is no longer necessary, said it's easier for women to "pursue both career success & a rich family life." It cited parental leave, child care help & strong pregnancy discrimination laws. But these things don't exist in the US:
    Justice Amy Coney Barrett during her confirmation hearing, with her husband and children behind her. Anti-abortion scholars say her career and family life, as a mother of seven, is an example of how the challenges of balancing work and family are less of an issue.
    Mississippi Asks: If Women Can Have It All, Is Roe Necessary? (Published 2021)
    From nytimes.com
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    Claire Cain Miller
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    Aug 5, 2020
    The absolute only explanation is that no one involved in this story has ever lived with a child