# @yahoolifestyle on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CsLynlntQS6
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/12303211-yahoolifestyle-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-05-13T13:01:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Yahoo Life (@yahoolifestyle) — https://gondola.cc/yahoolifestyle

## Caption

Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of #MomsFirst, a national non-profit advocating for public and private sector changes to advance women's economic freedom,  stresses the importance of getting money into the hands of parents. She points out that we “don’t value what we don’t pay for,” and “so as long as caregiving and household work is uncompensated, it’s basically invisible: It goes unnoticed, unappreciated and, worst of all, unsupported.”⁠
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When she first established Moms First (then known as the Marshall Plan for Moms) in 2021, Saujani, called for direct payments to mothers, who were “forced out of paid employment to essentially function as America’s social safety net, for free."⁠
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At the time, she says, "people would say ‘oh, but motherhood is a blessing!’ That’s true, and I know that better than anyone as a mother of two little boys I fought like hell to have. But motherhood is also a job, and the work that goes into it is real and deserving of not just admiration but compensation."⁠
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In the United States, Saujani notes, until the government steps up for these payments — by providing basic income or expanding the Child Tax Credit, for example — it’s vital that employers step up.⁠
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“Until the government acts, the number one thing employers can do to help parents is support them with child care,” she says. “Whether it’s in the form of flexibility, back-up care, on-site care, tuition stipends, there is no one-size fits all, but every company has got to be doing something. Moms First launched the National Business Coalition for Child Care, which is a first-of-its-kind coalition of companies from across industries who are leading on this issue. Together we are going to demonstrate that child care is a business imperative, not a personal problem, and expand the number of American workers with access to child care benefits.”⁠
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Link in bio for more. #mothersday

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