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Motherhood Is Completely At Odds With A Career-Obsessed Society

Being a new mother isn’t something to be technocratically managed, but to be honored for the beautiful, ennobling, and soul-enhancing experience it is.

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“This whole career thing is really at odds with being a new mother,” a woman said in the privacy of my office. New to my team, she had just returned from maternity leave after her first child and was juggling first-time motherhood and a new, demanding career that pushed her to work long hours and take long business trips away from her newborn. I knew she was right, but it was the first time in many years of management that I had heard it stated so succinctly and powerfully.

What I experienced that day was illuminating for both of us. For me as a male professional, it justified what I had so often thought when having other conversations with female coworkers navigating pregnancies and motherhood. For her as a young female professional, it was obvious that she felt a burden lifted and could admit what so many other female professionals seek so desperately to resist, deny, or control — namely, that modern careerism and motherhood are in deep, perhaps irreconcilable tension.

A Sympathetic Supervisor’s Constant Quandary

I’ve been in various supervisory positions for almost the entirety of my marriage. When we first married, my wife had her own career. But not long after the arrival of our first child, she traded that job for life as a stay-at-home mom. I wasn’t sure how I felt about that — playing the role of........

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