Mothers are Ideal Workers

How myths about workplace efficiency harm mothers, companies, and society.

Hazarda
Hazarda
Nov 4 · 4 min read
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“Ideal worker” and “mother” are not typically uttered in the same sentence, unless a negative is inserted between, as in “mothers are not ideal workers”. Yet, being a mother to young children taught me more about how to work efficiently than anything I did before or since.

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Hazarda

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Andrea Hazard is a scientist, writer, artist, activist, and educator. She is also a seeing-eye person to her blind dog, Levi.

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