Mothers & More Launches Mother’s Day Campaign.
Judith Stadtman Tucker, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Heather Boushay, Ann Crittenden, Caitlin Flanagan, and more.
“MOTHERS AT WORK”
Mothers & More Launches Mother’s Day Campaign
Highlighting the Importance of Care Work
A mother is always at work – caregiving work, that is. Whether she’s a stay-at-home mom or in the fulltime paid workplace or somewhere in between, whether she is with her kids or not, a mother’s caregiving work is on-going, non-stop. Mothers & More is driving this message home in their 4th annual Mother’s Day Campaign – “Mothers At Work.”
As part of bringing the larger societal issue of the invisibility of a mother’s care work into public view, Mothers & More, a national non-profit dedicated to improving the lives of mothers, is hosting an array of on-line activities to get mothers involved and raise awareness about how a mother’s work, paid and unpaid, is affected by workplace structures, public policies and social attitudes.
One of the most exciting of this year’s campaign activities is the guest line-up for the organization’s POWER Loop – an online forum that connects mothers across the country with authors, researchers, activists and others for informative and lively discussion related to the impact of American culture and society on the shared experience, social value and economics of motherhood.
This Mother’s Day season, the POWER Loop will feature the following guest speakers to discuss weekly topics that focus on Mothers & More’s beliefs.
April 27-May 1
GUEST: Caitlin Flanagan, author of To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife
May 1-8
TOPIC: All the work mothers do – whether paid or unpaid – has social and economic value.
GUESTS:
* Joy Rose, founder of Mamapalooza
* Joni B. Cole, co-editor of This Day in the Life, Diaries from Women Across America
* Beverley Smith of Kids First, Canada
May 9-16
TOPIC: Mothers have the right to fulfill their caregiving responsibilities without incurring social and economic penalties.
GUESTS:
* Ann Crittenden, author of The Price of Motherhood
* Heather Boushay, economist at the Center for Economic Policy Research
May 17-23
TOPIC: All women deserve recognition and support for their right to choose if and how to combine parenting and paid employment.
GUESTS:
* Sylvia Ann Hewlett, co-author of The Hidden Brain Drain: Off-Ramps and On-Ramps in Women’s Careers
* A representative from Choose 2 Lead Women’s Foundation
* Katie Corrigan, Sharon Masling and Barbara Cammarata of Workplace Flexibility 2010
* Amy Nassisi, founder of the Flexibility Alliance
May 24-31:
TOPIC: Discussions will include creating a month devoted to mothers and the Mothers’ Movement
GUESTS:
* Judith Stadtman Tucker, founder and editor of Mothers Movement Online
* Kristin Maschka, President Emeritus of Mothers & More
There is also a blog featuring five mothers in various stages of their lives representing a vast range of caregiving scenarios, who will share their thoughts, reflections and daily life realities. The blog webpages will take visitors through a “construction zone” where paths are engineered, detoured, on-ramped and off-ramped. Bloggers’ posts will make personal and immediate, the issues that affect all mothers. There is a companion blog which will encourage moms visiting the website to do their own blogging, comparing their journey through motherhood with the road signs featured on the site.
All this and loads of fascinating facts, figures and analyses about issues affecting mothers and ways to get involved make the Mothers At Work online campaign one of the busiest roads on the Internet!
Mothers & More is a national organization comprised of over 6,000 members organized in 140 chapters throughout the United States. They address mothers’ needs as individuals and members of society, and promote the value of all the work mothers do. For nearly 20 years, the organization has been bringing mothers together to weather the challenges they face, provide a network of support for one another, and advocate on mothers’ behalves. For more information, go to www.mothersandmore.org.