Working mothers are just as likely to wa... by Melinda M. Marshall

Want Failure Perfection

Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure to meet it as their stay-at-home counterparts.

- Melinda M. Marshall

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