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Tag: mothers
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Nation & World
Tracking ‘nepo baby’ effect on young Americans’ earnings
Matthew Staiger, an economist and research scientist at Harvard’s Opportunity Insights, finds nearly 1 in 3 latch on with parent’s employer and earn more because of it — but there is race gap.
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Nation & World
Why being a working mom is still so tough
In a new book, “Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity,” Professor Claudia Goldin traces five generational groups of college-educated women across 120 years.
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Nation & World
A mother’s influence
Researchers have shown, for the first time, that chimpanzees learn certain grooming behaviors from their mothers. Once learned, chimps continued to perform the behavior long after the deaths of their mothers.
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Nation & World
New support for nursing mothers
Harvard has had lactation rooms on both the Cambridge and Harvard Longwood campuses for more than a decade. It most recently added two additional rooms and updated three others. The most recent room opened in Widener Library.
