Saturday, April 17, 2010

The "Mommy Track" Turns 21

Slate has a piece discussing the “Mommy Track,” 21 years after people first began talking about it.

Author, Angie Kim, concludes optimistically: "the line between the fast-track and the mommy-track is blurring...The language of the mommy track—flexibility, balance—is infiltrating more and more jobs and replacing traditional work values—long hours, face time—as the new workplace ideal."

She even suggests replacing the term with a gender-neutral term like "sanity track," which deals with work-life balance issues for men and women.

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