New stay at home moms

“My alien.” This is how Josephine describes herself (first name changed). She’s only 30, a young law school graduate with a master’s degree in recent history, and already the head of a large family: a 5-year-old girl, a 3-year-old boy, and a two-month-old baby you can hear wailing on the phone. On a professional level, Josephine never went beyond a few internships: “I was depressed to leave my eldest with a nanny. Even when I left the office at 6pm, which is early for a lawyer, I only saw my daughter for about twenty minutes at night. I once considered becoming a corporate lawyer and going four-fifths, but even with This arrangement, I have spent a lot of time working. »

While she is pregnant with the second, Josephine decides that she will keep her children for a year. To finally come to this conclusion: “As long as I have kids at home, I won’t want to work.”

They graduated and became women in a post-sexual revolution world yet made this choice: to stay home once the children were born. “Can women really have it all?” (“Can women really have it all?”), asked the BBC in response to the resignation of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on January 19.

Well, no, answer these new stay-at-home moms. Between career and family life, they decided. Like Joseph