The New Mommy Track

10/30/2007

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou

Mothers want flexibility. That is the message of an article, "The New Mommy Track," by Kimberly Palmer (U.S. News and World Report, September 3, 2007; www.usnews.com). She observes...

"... a new generation of American mothers [is] rejecting the 'superwoman' image from the 1980s as well as the 'soccer mom' stereotype of the 1990s. Mothers today are more likely to negotiate flexible schedules at work and demand fuller participation of fathers in child raising than previous generations did, giving them more time to pursue their own careers and interests. Some so-called mompreneurs start their own businesses. Nearly 26 percent of working women with children under 18 work flexible schedules, according to the bureau of Labor Statistics, compared with 14 percent in 1991."

The article also observed that working mothers increasingly say part time work is their ideal work situation. In 2007, 60 percent of mothers made this claim as compared with 48 percent in 1997.

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