You’re Overlooking This Hidden Workforce — And It’s Costing You

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What if I told you that there’s a huge pool of potential employees who have mastered multitasking, are remarkably resilient, emotionally intelligent and well-trained? And they rarely complain? Also, they are easy to find. Sounds like a dream, right?

Those people are moms. Moms are patient and hard-working. We, women, are expecting it from ourselves.

Women remain underrepresented in leadership (still less than 30% in C-suite roles in the US). Women are often sidelined not because of a lack of skill or ambition, but by systemic and internalized barriers.

The invisible weight

As a mom of two, for many years, I lived with

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