Feminists

Single mom with two kids, me and my younger brother. She got to "have it all" when Dad left and she had to re-enter the work force.

I remember a lot of magazine articles in the 80's, or advertizing, it's getting hazy--showing a woman in a suit holding a baby. They were geared toward women with high-end or executive careers. There was the unspoken expectation that superwoman could hold down both roles without even breaking a nail. There was a Diane Keaton movie called Baby Boom in 1987:

I'm not really sure what the message was we were supposed to get from all of that. Only having a child made you human if you were a woman in a professional career track, otherwise people would think you were an unfeminine ball-buster?