It's time for us to recognize that parenting develops career critical skills. It's harder to be a working parent in the U.S. than in any other country in the developed world.
It's time for us to support working parents.
“I’ve spent the past twenty years looking at culture through the lens of parenthood. Modern leaders, and society as a whole, need the skills parenthood unlocks.
It’s time we see and treat parents as assets and not liabilities in our workplaces.”
Covid has made visible and increased the challenges working parents have faced for generations. Fortunately, there are people who are working to build a better future for working parents. Learn more about them here. We are stronger together than we are alone.
I wrote ‘Tending: Parenthood and the Future of Work,’ to heal myself. The book chronicles my own deeply personal quest to understand motherhood, and parenthood more broadly, in our modern times. I needed to give voice to my own experiences because I feared what would happen if I remained silent.
In her new book, Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life, longtime Wall Street Journal columnist Joann Lublin explores and compares how two generations of mothers—boomers and Gen Xers—have navigated career and parenting challenges.
Amy is grateful to be featured in this book, and in the Fortune article, about how motherhood can make us better at work, but only if we have the support we need.
"Before the pandemic, parents took on Ringling Bros. Circus-level juggling in order to conceal the realities of caregiving from the workplace. But now, no level of circus artistry can conceal the impact and importance of care responsibilities in our private lives, as well our professional ones. And that might not be a bad thing." Amy was included in this important CNN story by Elissa Strauss.
