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Who’s afraid of a stay-at-home mom?

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What do you call it when a college-educated married woman has a baby, and, bolstered by her husband’s income, she leaves her job to spend time raising the baby?

If you’re the financial press or a liberal academic, you call this a “troubling employment trend,” you lament it as a “sign of the Trump times,” and you sound the alarm over “a mom-cession” rooted in “structural inequities in work.”

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