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Surprise: it’s still motherhood
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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

For some men, women are baffling creatures, apparently

Women in America are having as many babies over their lifetimes as they did two decades ago

America’s child-care gender gap is narrowing rapidly

Elites should stop assuming that the barriers to progress are the same from Brazil to Bangladesh, writes Alice Evans

But special “mum jobs” are hardly helping