After the “lean in” generation, are professional women leaning out?
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Is the “Lean In” generation 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
Surprise: it’s still motherhood
Maybe they are becoming tradwives. Or maybe there is a more straightforward explanation
Bigger cities are, in turn, skewing more female
