When I stopped orbiting men at work
I grew up in the age of "Free to Be . . . You and Me," when all the girls I knew like me, coming of age in the 1980s, believed we could and would grow up to do whatever we wanted to do, to be anything we wanted to be. The upbringing was freeing because we were shielded from the gender bias the …
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