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Is the “Lean In” generation leaning out?
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After the “lean in” generation, are professional women leaning out?

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

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

They have been squeezed by competitors old and new

They are more secular and more liberal—unless they’re made in China

Maybe they are becoming tradwives. Or maybe there is a more straightforward explanation