Invest in yourself: an act of defiant self-love

Dara Laine Murray
3 min readFeb 3, 2022

There’s a common narrative that womxn consistently put others before themselves, which is the reason why womxn are not more prevalent business owners or hold C-suite roles.

Known as the family-work balance, these tired anecdotes really haven’t changed since the 1940s. It is still a common story that womxn leave the workplace to care for their families or are less ambitious due to familial responsibilities.

This completely disregards the fact that many womxn are working professionals AND the primary domestic executive for…

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Dara Laine Murray

Multi-passionate sobriety writer on Medium. Day job: Director of Research at a nonprofit. Stories = sober + stats. Editor: https://medium.com/modern-sobriety