Phoebe: Supporting Mothers From Conception to Work-Life Balance

Fit As A Fiddle · Apr 28, 2022 · 39m

The last 2 years shed light on how lack of childcare acutely hurt working mothers. It showed there is no gender equality. It showed that 2 million women left the workforce. But none of this is new.

The US has policies that do not support working mothers. We have no universal childcare, and women still do most of the physical and mental work of parenting. Half of the gender pay gap is due to motherhood. Fathers still get a pay bonus while 1/3 of US births result in trauma and 1/4 of women experience postpartum depression.

Today I had the privilege of sitting down with one of the founders and…