“During childbearing years, changing jobs - even for a fundamentally better gig - can be a very bad idea. Those prime childbearing years - mid-twenties to early forties - overlap precisely with prime professional years. This is when employees are most attractive to new employers, when they should be able to zip up ladders with the most alacrity.”

American journalist

Rebecca Traister is an American journalist who writes about U.S. politics, especially questions affecting women. She is a writer-at-large for New York magazine and has often appeared as a commentator on cable news. She is the author of two bestsellers, All the Single Ladies and Good and Mad. Her work focuses on politics and the public life of women, and she is known for writing and speaking on those themes across print and television.