Whether or not this is the case, she fails to note that women’s lives have certainly changed in this period. Women’s greater participation in the economy, increasingly while their children are very young, has made it much harder for them to juggle the demands of a career with the demands of motherhood. During this period, when depression has apparently surged dramatically, more and more babies have been cared for by strangers during daylight hours, and by their parents at the end of a busy working day.
