Why Maternity Leave Should be Less About Time Off and More About Flexibility

Why Maternity Leave Should be Less About Time Off and More About Flexibility

“I worked for myself, so I didn’t have any institutional maternity leave. With my first kid, I was just graduating from graduate school when I got pregnant and it was a very uncertain time. So I basically scraped it together doing freelance consulting and just made it work.” — Morra Aarons-Mele on having three children and running her own consultancy.

Filling the Gap With a Hidden, Untapped, Talent Pool

Filling the Gap With a Hidden, Untapped, Talent Pool

Dominie Moss is focused on a very specific gap in the market that is wildly underserved: women who have taken a career break and want to get back to work. In her estimation, there are 427,000 women in the UK alone that want to return to executive-level positions and have the talent to do so, but no clear path for what it looks like (yet). Dominie’s company is setting out to fix this.