Lisa Heffernan writes in Vox about the Mommy Track and the success that companies find when they manage it well.
Vodafone, the telecommunications giant, announced in March that it was changing its global policies for new mothers. Beginning this year, all women will be offered 16 weeks of paid maternity leave and the ability to work a 30-hour week at full pay for six months after they return. Vodafone made this policy change after it found that 65 percent of the women who left the company following a maternity leave did so within their first year back. The company believes it will retain more talent and grow careers by instituting automatic flexibility for all new mothers.
What Vodafone is creating here is something many women have been told to fear: a “Mommy Track” — a lower-impact, more flexible work schedule.
The Mommy Track concept has been out of favor for years. Critics see it as a way of side tracking mothers by routing them into lower-paying, dead-end positions. But that’s not always true. If done correctly, the Mommy Track is a great idea. And some companies are figuring out how to do it really well.
Read the rest of Lisa’s post In Defense of the Mommy Track in Vox here:
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