Escaping the ‘Invincible Mom’ Trap

I thought successfully juggling parenthood and my career meant never showing vulnerability

Francesca Tripodi
Forge
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6 min readJun 18, 2019

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In one of my first interactions with the chair of my department, he mentioned that if I ever needed to, I could bring my kids to work with me. He’d had young kids when he started his job, he told me, and he knew firsthand that between sick days and snow…

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Francesca Tripodi
Forge
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Sociologist and media scholar studying Wikipedia, Google, and other participatory media platforms. @ftripodi / www.ftripodi.com