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And again like I mentioned before even sometimes it’s challenging even to do this work because we’re not even physically set up to have – like we don’t have spaces that feel – like we don’t have easily accessible childcare. So if you’re asking women to be involved and come to the table for meetings and they have kids but this isn’t their paid work then it’s kind of you have to navigate around it.
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