Time After Time
24 hours a day, Mothers continue their quest for visibility, economic equality, and harmony.
There’s no short supply of pieces on moms and the pandemic, but until women reach equality, it’s worth repeating, over and over: pay us.
Moms aren’t Superheroes.
We might have mom-fingers (that can pull a hot cookie sheet out of an oven with our bare hands.) And sure, we have eyes in the back of our heads. We can identify our baby in a sea of other crying babies.
We grow humans and a new organ, then run marathons. We give birth to tiny humans and go back to being queens within weeks. We nurse while addressing the U.N.
Moms don’t wear capes. We do tons of invisible labor, but being invisible is not a superpower.
As Donna Reed said, “The phrase ‘working mother’ is redundant.”
We already manage more than our fair share, with or without an outside job or business to run.
There’s a reason it’s called Invisible Labor. There is a reason parenting is called a “full-time job.” To make care work seen and valued, you have to see it first. And, if they didn’t before, our partners are seeing it now.
