Joint Accounts

How Can I Talk About the Motherhood Tax With My Husband?

We’ve always kept our finances separate, but now that we have a baby, it feels like the cost is disproportionately falling on me

Kristin Wong
Forge
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4 min readNov 18, 2019

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Illustration: Laurie Rollitt

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Kristin Wong
Forge
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Kristin Wong has written for the New York Times, The Cut, Catapult, The Atlantic and ELLE.