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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitch Dudek

Linda Hirshman, lawyer and author who urged educated mothers not to stay home to raise kids, dead at 79

Linda Hirshman. (Provided)

Former Chicagoan Linda Hirshman ruffled feathers with a 2005 article that argued that women, particularly highly educated women, who left the workforce to stay home and raise kids were harming society.

Such women, she argued, should make money and wield power. Anything less would be a failure to feminism, not a triumph of female agency.

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