"“Even if it’s unspoken, there is a very clear expectation that you will maintain a certain appearance if you’re a woman,” the former CNN anchor and NBC News White House correspondent Campbell Brown told me. “The ability to maintain that appearance flies out the window when you get pregnant.”"
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Julianna Goldman, “It's Almost Impossible to Be a Mom in Television News”, The Atlantic, (Dec 4, 2018).
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