Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant: How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me about the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America

by Stephanie Kiser

For these women education is not an economic necessity, it’s a social status. The working mom is a rarity—and, in many instances, the least respected on the totem pole of motherhood.

Life for me had been like starting a game of Monopoly with half a dice and five one-dollar bills. My opponents, like the ones whose homes I had worked in, had begun the game with six properties and a hundred thousand dollars. The only miracle for them would be if they didn’t end up successful. Life in America was rigged, but I had done well enough in the game to find a happy medium.