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Indrė Lukošiūtė

“Women Fought For This”: Mom’s Video About Challenges Of Being A Working Mom Splits The Internet

Modern moms have to do it all: take care of the household, the kids, go to work, and turn in a flawless performance there. But the reality is that 9.8 million mothers in the U.S. are experiencing burnout.

Recently, a mom has gone viral online after she posted a video of her crying at work. Instead of witnessing her baby daughter sit up for the first time, she could only watch it through a baby monitor at her desk in the office.

Her experience prompted a heated debate in the comments. Was this just a failing of the U.S. healthcare system for mothers and was this really what feminists fought for?

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