When women eat their meals after men, they often eat leftover food that is of lower quality than what they would consume if men and women ate together, says the study.

She told my mother, "You doting parents turn these girls into delicate darlings, you should let them be a little tough. Girls have to be strong, what is this?"

These three consecutive incidents made me introspect about my own values and my career. All I wanted was to be treated with respect.

Did I fail my child by being a working mother? Or did the medical community fail my daughter and her parents with its misogynistic biases and lack of empathy?

A few months into living alone, I realized that I had unknowingly and unintentionally offended the traditionalists by living in my own space, minding my own business, and paying my own bills.