Anastasia Berg

I felt pressure not to have kids.

I felt pressure not to have kids.

I felt pressure not to have kids.

I felt pressure from parents, certainly from colleagues. It was frowned upon when I was thinking about it, when I had them, etc.

I felt pressure from parents, certainly from colleagues. It was frowned upon when I was thinking about it, when I had them, etc.

I felt pressure from parents, certainly from colleagues. It was frowned upon when I was thinking about it, when I had them, etc.

Yeah, so we have, I think, very loud and very strong pressures coming from different directions. Let me give another example. So one thing we look at is film and television. And we find that after years where women played the role of second fiddle, there were wives and mothers and secretaries, we have them now taking center stage, the protagonists of shows and films.

Yeah, so we have, I think, very loud and very strong pressures coming from different directions. Let me give another example. So one thing we look at is film and television. And we find that after years where women played the role of second fiddle, there were wives and mothers and secretaries, we have them now taking center stage, the protagonists of shows and films.

Yeah, so we have, I think, very loud and very strong pressures coming from different directions. Let me give another example. So one thing we look at is film and television. And we find that after years where women played the role of second fiddle, there were wives and mothers and secretaries, we have them now taking center stage, the protagonists of shows and films.

It is remarkable how often they are a protagonist but how rarely they are a mother. So from the stoners of Broad City to the spies of Homeland to the kind of political operatives of Scandal and House of Cards, they're very rarely mothers.

It is remarkable how often they are a protagonist but how rarely they are a mother. So from the stoners of Broad City to the spies of Homeland to the kind of political operatives of Scandal and House of Cards, they're very rarely mothers.

It is remarkable how often they are a protagonist but how rarely they are a mother. So from the stoners of Broad City to the spies of Homeland to the kind of political operatives of Scandal and House of Cards, they're very rarely mothers.

So again, somebody attuned to that messaging will say, well, the message is you could be anything you want to be, lady, as long as you're deprioritizing motherhood. I think both things are happening at the same time. I think your cab driver is asking questions he should not.

So again, somebody attuned to that messaging will say, well, the message is you could be anything you want to be, lady, as long as you're deprioritizing motherhood. I think both things are happening at the same time. I think your cab driver is asking questions he should not.

So again, somebody attuned to that messaging will say, well, the message is you could be anything you want to be, lady, as long as you're deprioritizing motherhood. I think both things are happening at the same time. I think your cab driver is asking questions he should not.

But I also think that we are seeing fewer and fewer representations of how you can combine motherhood with a truly fulfilling and intellectually and artistic and professionally really ambitious life.

But I also think that we are seeing fewer and fewer representations of how you can combine motherhood with a truly fulfilling and intellectually and artistic and professionally really ambitious life.

But I also think that we are seeing fewer and fewer representations of how you can combine motherhood with a truly fulfilling and intellectually and artistic and professionally really ambitious life.

I love that. I completely agree with you. And I think that this kind of binary, which is not just a grasp of the question as a binary one, but it's also this binary that we have in identities that we see people kind of doubling down on the identity of the the woes with kids and the childless. I think these are underserving us.

I love that. I completely agree with you. And I think that this kind of binary, which is not just a grasp of the question as a binary one, but it's also this binary that we have in identities that we see people kind of doubling down on the identity of the the woes with kids and the childless. I think these are underserving us.