The firm offered her a choice: "I could take the mommy track or go for it, " Bushman says.

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You need to keep pushing your career ahead, so that at the very least when you come back you get a good assignment, not the mommy track.

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Some of this is likely due to the persistent mommy track problem in which women with high-paid husbands tend to cut back on their own hours to raise children.

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As the story unfolds, Jane struggles with the demands of being on both the mommy track and the tenure track, as well as with the sense that her seemingly emancipated life has some queasy similarities to Masha's wifely serfdom.

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