Equal Pay Day Opinion: Wage Gap Persists in Columbus

In my late twenties, I had a flashy job in New York City, and then I experienced an unexpected pregnancy. I felt my world, which had been as wide as the sky, shrink to the size of a nursery with yellow wallpaper. My employer was jealous of my time – no one else in the office had young children – and the one way trip from our Astoria apartment to my daughter’s daycare to my office in Manhattan was almost an hour. New York was untenable; my husband and I moved home to Ohio.
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