What Do Companies Owe Working Mothers?
A conversation with author Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, on why leaning in didn’t work and what employers must do to help women recover from the pandemic.
Reshma Saujani, author, “Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (And Why It’s Different Than You Think)”
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This is one of a series of interviews by Bloomberg Opinion columnists on how to solve the world’s most pressing policy challenges. It has been edited for length and clarity.
Clara Ferreira Marques: As the founder and former CEO of Girls Who Code, you’ve been an advocate for female economic empowerment for more than a decade. You’ve now written a manifesto for working mothers, a group disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Women, as you put it at the start of your book, are “burned out, exhausted, depressed, enraged, and at a breaking point.”