7 Career Women Told Me How They Feel They’ve Been Masculinized For Their Ambition

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By Jasmine Browley ·Updated January 31, 2023

I remember watching the viral clip of T.D. Jakes’s sermon about modern Black women’s role in the household slack-jawed. Last year on Father’s Day, the lauded religious figure passionately preached to his large congregation why today’s women aren’t encouraged to embrace their femininity, but instead find too much pride in their professional accomplishments.

“This breaks all the sociological order of the

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