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Most working women face a combination of the high cost of raising children and working to pay the bills. The pressures force many of us to choose between limiting the number of children we have and climbing the workplace ladder. The kid ceiling, with its dollar inequities and employers’ views, affects everything from women’s titles to paychecks, from how many hours they work to how guilty they feel about the child they have, the children they want, and the time to attend to them in the ways they had hoped they could.  There are solutions to help break down the kid ceiling, but are they governmental, corporate, or personal?