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Gertrude Stein

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

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The speaker remarks that after speaking at campuses, they still never see young men rise to ask how to combine a career with a family. The complaint suggests that this balancing question is treated as belonging to women alone, while men are not expected to wonder about it.

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