mommy track
Slower career path
A mommy track is a career path with reduced hours, responsibilities, or advancement opportunities, taken by women prioritizing childcare.
The term often carries negative connotations—suggesting that choosing flexibility means accepting professional marginalization: She felt shunted onto the mommy track after her maternity leave.
Sometimes used critically to describe workplace structures that penalize mothers.
- parentingNurturing and guiding children
- part-timeLimited work schedule
- maternityState of being pregnant
- work-life balanceManaging career and home
- second shiftEvening work period
stereotype · child · mommyhood · stay at home · glass ceiling · employment discrimination · discrimination · implicit bias · caregiving roles · mat leave · career break · back to work · baby · double burden · opt out · flextime · gender norms · societal expectations
- working parentsworking dad, dual income, work-life balance, childcare, daycare
- sayings about motherhoodmother hen, motherly love, mother's milk, empty nest, supermom
- gender stereotypesboys will be boys, pink for girls, blue for boys, man up, strong men
- sexismsexism, gender discrimination, sex discrimination, gender bias, male privilege
- patriarchymale dominance, male supremacy, pater familias, patria potestas, male privilege