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Working Mom

You love your kids, but that doesn't mean you're done with your career. Here's what every working mom needs to know about maternity leave, paid time off, flexibility, and other support needed from companies.

Parenting

How We All Can Help Improve Paid Parental Leave Policy Now

Giving better support to working parents benefits everyone

Pregnancy

A Maternity Leave Out-of-Office Message to Use

When your inbox will be the last thing on your mind

Career Trajectories

How 3 Moms Made Career Breaks Work for Their Trajectories

"Anything that costs you your mental health is too expensive"

Diversity

Ways Women Work: How Caregiving & Unpaid Work Disproportionately Affect Women

And ways companies, allies, and partners can help

Parenting

How to Balance Building a Career While Being a Full-Time Mom

And 4 qualities to look for in a prospective employer

Guides to Discrimination

Are You on the ‘Mommy Track’? How to Know & What to Do About It

Derailing discrimination

Parenting

30 Realities of Being a Working Mom & How to Deal

We hit the motherload with this one

Career Development

Boost Your Productivity! 20 Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder

Calculating peak capacity

Working Mom

20+ Pandemic Moms on Ways Companies Have Made Working & Parenting Possible

Flexibility, empathy, and putting people first

Working Mom

Tell Us Without Telling Us: What’s It Like to Be a Working Mom During the Pandemic?

Lol, things are kind of bad, no?

Working Mom

Why Companies Should Hire Moms, According to Moms

You’ll never guess what the M in MVP actually stands for

Mental Health

How to Cope with Constantly Being Overwhelmed

For when 'wearing multiple hats' is an understatement

Employer Resources

2 Under-the-Radar Ways to Support & Retain Working Moms During the Pandemic

Job satisfaction among moms is lower than usual, but company culture fixes can change that

Employer Resources

Study: What Employers Can Do to Keep Moms in the Workforce

60% of working moms say the effects of the pandemic could push them out of work

Research

Study: What Working Moms Need Most During COVID-19 as Work-from-Home Orders Are Extended

How employers, employees, coworkers, and partners can support moms who are working from home and caring for children

Working During Coronavirus

15 Funny & Relatable Tweets from Parents Working from Home with Kids

Wear your child as a backpack!

Parenting

5 Teacher-Approved Apps Your Kids Will Love

As told by an 8 year old

Workplace Rights

A Guide to Short Term Disability for the Self-Employed

Plus the FAQs you need the answers to

Career Development

How Much Does It Cost to Have a Baby in 2021?

We're not just talking about money

Pregnancy

How to Manage Anxiety During Pregnancy at Work

It's not just you
 
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