It’s about the sway, not just the balance.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Joann Lublin says that for mothers employed outside the home, balance is not the goal, but swaying is.
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The third envelope in the class exercise at Goldman Sachs Small Business Program was the key.
Jennifer Beall Saxton, founder and CEO of Tot Squad, recalls the class exercise was to open three envelopes in succession. In the first envelope was a fake check for $50,000. The assignment was to figure out what as a start-up, you could do with that influx of cash. Saxton had plenty of ideas.
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The pandemic has been particularly difficult for women with children in the workforce. Over more than a year of economic uncertainty, remote work, remote learning for children and largely unavailable childcare, women have toasted two Mothers Days—2020 and 2021.
It is time to celebrate the mothers among us who are facing, meeting and managing these challenges.
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We await near-universal availability of vaccines and see the daily morbidity and mortality toll of COVID, while the economy takes a dive and frontline workers are nearing their breaking point. An initial solution to slowing the spread of the disease—working from home and schooling at home—is taking its tangled toll on families, creating a whole new set of problems, particularly for women.
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“Now is one of the best times to network,” says Kayla Tekus, director of marketing at The Mom Project, a Chicago-based talent and coaching company focusing on career paths of women and mothers, with a community of over 250,000 professionals and more than 2,000 companies.
The latest news for the company founded in 2016 by CEO Allison Robinson, is that they are offering $500,000 in their Stronger Together Fund to small and medium sized businesses to retain female employees or hire new ones on contracts, with $1,000 to $5,000 grants. Thirty grants have been given so far.
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