Chamber of Mothers: On a Mission to Save Paid Family and Medical Leave
Lauren Smith Brody, Ashley Reckdenwald and her daughter, and Ingrid Read pose at a NYC rally to #savepaidleave.
Working Momkind has the unique privilege and opportunity to join forces--hands, rather — with the Chamber of Mothers. We’ve seen firsthand the detriment and agony that lack of adequate paid family leave can have on working families: and it stops here. We’re raising our voices to the collective call to demand paid family and medical leave in the United States and to continue echoing our mission statement of uniting with — and advocating for — one another.
For far too long, mothers have been moving this country forward while being seemingly catapulted backward when it comes to taking paid maternity, medical, or family leave: and we’ve had it.
We’ve had it with moms feeling as though they must make a choice between career or family.
We’ve had it with moms who are barely recovered from childbirth, being expected to go back to work while they toil with exhaustion, leaking breasts, and aching hearts.
We’ve had it with the inequity that comes from a system that was never built for us but instead exploited us and our (literal and metaphorical) labors for nearly six decades.
We join countless voices calling for paid family leave that is both inclusive (being able to take leave to care for an aging parent, an ill spouse, a niece — could you imagine?) and reduces the stigma around choosing family over work during a challenging time. It’s not a vacation, and the calls to action are already being championed by the Chamber of Mothers (#BuildBackBleeding, for example) accurately portray how raw and difficult it all can be.
Working Momkind is dedicated to making life better for moms, plain and simple, and we know we’re not the only organization striving for this initiative. With the advocacy, support, and passion of the Chamber of Mothers, Daphne Delvaux, Working Mom Notes, and The Fifth Trimester (among many others!), we are honored to join this initiative to help ALL momkind.
