The child care system is broken, and women are paying the price.
Literally. We’re talking nearly $300K in lost earnings over their lifetime. That’s why Moms First and theSkimm have teamed up to launch #ShowUsYourChildCare: a new campaign calling on companies to show up for their employees and open up about their child care policies.
You deserve child care benefits.
When companies offer child care benefits, everyone wins. Employees are happier and more productive, companies are able to retain their staff longer, and the economy is able to thrive. But most working parents still don’t have what they need to feel supported in the workplace.
This is why working parents across the country are standing up and demanding better. And that's where we come in. If you’re ready to talk to your employer about child care benefits, we’ve built a suite of resources to help every step of the way!
Want to know what care benefits other companies are offering? Check out the #ShowUsYourChildCare database now.
In America today, 40% of parents say they’ve gone into debt from the high cost of child care.
The lack of quality, affordable child care is forcing mothers out of the workforce, limiting opportunities for advancement, and costing us hard earned dollars. While solving the child care crisis will take significant public investment, until then, families shouldn't have to carry the cost alone: that's why we need the private sector to step up.
Supporting employees with child care isn’t just good for moms.
It’s good for business and the economy too.
Companies that offer child care benefits see better recruitment, retention, productivity, and diversity – and that translates to real dollars. Whether it’s on-site child care centers, access to back up care, cash stipends to put toward their child care costs, or flexible work hours to accommodate caregiving, every company can do something to be part of the solution.
Want your company to join the movement and #ShowUsYourChildCare? Download our template letter to reach out to your company’s HR and ask them to share. If you’re an HR executive or empowered decision maker at your company, use our toolkit to #ShowUsYourChildCare.
What’s our child care?
The teams at Moms First and theSkimm both value transparency. We’re asking you to #ShowUsYourChildCare, so it’s only fair we show you ours. Here are the caregiving benefits we offer our employees:
Support affordable, quality child care.
Sign the #ShowUsYourChildCare petition now to join the fight for affordable, quality child care and encourage business leaders and their companies to #ShowUsYourChildCare.
Resources
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The Business Case For Child Care
Moms can’t work without child care – period. Read Moms First’s latest report, with original data developed by our knowledge partner McKinsey.
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Playbook for Employers
Moms First’s playbook for employers, developed with APCO Impact, lays out the daily injustices working moms face and exactly what we need to return to and thrive at work.
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National Business Coalition for Child Care
A first-of-its-kind coalition to make providing child care benefits the norm for U.S. employers, and to dramatically increase the number of American workers with access to these supports.
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Forbes: Why The Child Care Crisis Is Actually An Economic Crisis
The struggle for child care is intensified in summer months, when parents attempt to cobble together a mixture of pricey camps with long waitlists and other supplemental activities for children.
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Yahoo!Life: Working moms feel the summer strain. Why a lack of child care options hit women hard.
"It's never more obvious than in the summer months when we see moms just getting crushed trying to do it all.”
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Women's Wear Daily: What Will It Take for Workplaces to Work for Women?
While motherhood is the greatest cause of the gender pay gap, there’s still a long way to go.
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EBN: theSkimm and Moms First are challenging companies to share their child care benefits
Are employers prepared to step up, or will they let workers fend for themselves? Two companies are challenging employers to reveal their answer.
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Child Care Costs, Hotel Price Hacking, & Student Loan Repayment Prep
Child care is expensive. So expensive that it’s keeping some parents — many of them mothers — out of the workforce. According to one study, it costs the average family $9,051 annually.
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LinkedIn News: Moms speak up on child care issues
Companies are once again being challenged to step up on child care, particularly after the pandemic forced more than 2 million mothers out of the global workforce.
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Skimm Readers Reveal Their Child Care Arrangements & Frustration
As it turns out, there’s nothing like a global pandemic to expose the precarity of child care in America.
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Millennials Are The New Sandwich Generation. Here's what that means.
See if this sounds familiar: Half of your non-working time is spent supporting your parents; the other half, your kids. In the middle there’s you, pressed — and stressed — between their competing needs.
