2007 Mothers Day Campaign:
Mothers at Work

All women deserve recognition and support for their right to choose if and how to combine parenting and paid employment.

Imagine a world where everyone agrees that mothers, families and children are unique and need to be respected for the decisions they make about combining caring for each other with employment. That's what we hope to create together, changing our workplaces so that mothers, fathers and others have real options for combining employment and caring for family over their lifetimes.

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POWER Plan

To reshape our paid workplaces in ways that acknowledge that mothers, fathers and others who need to care for their families and work for pay are holding down two jobs, both equally important to our economy and our society, and that they need more and better options for combining paid work with caregiving work, we will:

• Raise public awareness about the obstacles mothers face in balancing their caregiving responsibilities with paid work over the course of their lifetimes.
• Educate mothers and raise public awareness about the barriers businesses face in creating part-time and flexible work options, the benefits to businesses for providing these options and the disincentives mothers face to taking such work.
• Educate mothers and raise public awareness about how current tax policy affects family decisions and constrains the options available to parents for combining paid work and caregiving over their lifetimes.
• Raise public awareness by seeking partnerships with businesses, organizations and professional associations to further the dialogue about reorganizing workplaces.
• Raise public awareness by building our own organization in such a way as to model the workplaces we want to see.
• Raise public awareness by recognizing and supporting businesses that succeed in reorganizing their paid work to provide real options for employees who also have caregiving responsibilities.
• Act to support legislation at the state and federal levels that ensures proportional pay, benefits and advancement for part-time and contingent workers.

Related Issues

• Problems finding high quality part time work, part time daycare
• Problems trying to sequence back into the workforce at a level similar to the job left

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