Working Mothers Don’t Make Children Obese

Gideon M-K; Health Nerd
6 min readMar 13, 2019

Why blaming working mums is mostly misogynistic nonsense

Working mothers are great, stop blaming them for everything Source: Pexels

The news cycle is full of wonderful irony. One week it’s International Women’s Day, and we’re all talking about how important it is to reduce gender inequality across the world. The next, news sources from across the world are blaming childhood obesity on — of all things — working mothers.

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