Lizette Discrimination

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Lizette, I am the same. I was not really aware of the discrimination that single mother that has children get especially when they are trying to get a job. Mothers are trying to support there children but companies don't want to hired them and give them on opportunity to work. On the video Kiki explains that she had a job interview were the interview said “We don't hired women with children and I said why? He said, they take too much time off from work” (The Motherhood Manifesto, 4:47). I was surprise by what the interviewer had told

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