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I would love to be a full time mom at some point,

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but I think the anxiety of what

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if I get bored? What if

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I want to return to the workforce,

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What does that even mean? What does that look like? You

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know, as the morning anchor, viewers want to

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see a beauty queen. So I'm pranktic

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now I've gained like forty pounds.

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I knew it would be an issue. The

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Paycheck is back for a second season,

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and this time we're talking about the one

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thing that hurts women's earnings more

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than anything else, motherhood.

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As I was campaigning for the Senate, I felt like

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I was leaving my daughter behind. I learned

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the hard way that there is no

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work life balance. We're

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going to investigate what happens to women's paychecks,

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their lives, and the global economy

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when women choose to have kids or

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don't. Wages have effectively

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remained flat, while the cost of

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childcare it has gone up nearly

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a thousand per cent, and

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it does lead young people to

1:04

have a legitimate question, is it okay

1:06

to still have children? The

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Paychecks new season starts April

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ten. Subscribe to The Paycheck wherever

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you listen to podcasts.