working mom
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A working mom is a mother who holds paid employment outside the home while raising children.
The term emerged as women entered the workforce in greater numbers, though it carries an implicit contrast with stay-at-home mothers that some find reductive—all mothers work.
As a working mom, she juggles conference calls and school pickups.
- multitaskingDoing several things concurrently
- exhaustedUtterly depleted of energy
- daycareChild supervision facility
- jugglingSequential toss-and-catch performance
- careerLifelong occupational pursuit
balance · guilt · commute · pumping · breast pump · maternity leave · sick days · lunchbox · meal prep · deadline · time crunch · overwhelmed · supermom · breadwinner · nanny · preschool · school pickup · hustle
- Momsmother, mama, mummy, mamma, ma
- sayings about motherhoodmama bear, mother hen, motherly love, mother's milk, empty nest
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- parentinggentle parenting, child, children, kids, childcare
- parentsdad, mother, father, mama, papa
- working parentsdual income, childcare, daycare, maternity leave, paternity leave