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In 1978, Carol Evans helped launch Working Mother magazine. In 2001, she returned to become the first and only working mother to own it. In between, she would launch the Working Mother Best Companies as a way to encourage companies to compete to do better for their employees. In our Season Four finale, Carol shares the history, impact and legacy of the Best Companies — and what work still needs to be done to support all working parents.    Support Abortion Rights  Visit abortion.cafe to find resources.  Visit shoutyourabortion.com to join the campaign to normalize abortion.  And give today at donations4abortion.com to support abortion funds by state.  Learn more at podvoices.help.    Episode Links  A Brief History of Carol Evans  This Is How We Do It: The Working Mothers' Manifesto  The 100 Most Influential Women in Advertising History  Intrepid Women: Carol Evans, CEO, SHARE  2021 Working Mother Best Companies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A billionaire executive, author, philanthropist and working mother of two, Sheryl Sandberg has long been one of the most influential — and controversial — breadwinners in the world. This week, we dive into Sandberg’s “sort of a feminist manifesto,” Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, to consider its legacy nearly 10 years later. Support Abortion Rights Visit abortion.cafe to find resources. Visit shoutyourabortion.com to join the campaign to normalize abortion. And give today at donations4abortion.com to support abortion funds by state. Learn more at podvoices.help. Episode Links Why Women Still Can’t Have It All — Anne-Marie Slaughter Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders — Sheryl Sandberg TED Talk The 2012 TIME 100: Sheryl Sandberg — Muhtar Kent Lean In’s Sheryl Sandberg Problem — Nellie Bowles, New York Times I Was a Sheryl Sandberg Superfan. Then her “Lean In” Advice Failed Me — Katherine Goldstein, Vox The End of Leaning In: How Sheryl Sandberg’s Message of Empowerment Fully Unraveled — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post Stop Leaning In And Start Fixing The Real Problem — Mona Andrews, Forbes What Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ Has Meant to Women — Emma Goldberg, New York Times Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2013, new working mom and newly minted tech CEO Marissa Mayer announced a bold new policy: no longer could employees work from home. The change not only impacted hundreds of employees at Yahoo, it sparked a debate that roiled workplaces nationwide. In this episode, Jennifer tells that story and how it prompted the launch of #NationalFlexDay. Support Us  Share us with your favorite breadwinners today.  Get The Breadwinners t-shirts, stickers and more!    Episode Links  Zooming Into a Very Different National Flex Day  How to ask your boss for a more flexible work schedule  Marissa Mayer's No-Flex Policy Old School for Young Mom CEO  Back To the Stone Age? New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Bans Working From Home  Just Relax, NoFlex Boss: Flex Is a Boost Not Bust for Your Workplace  Yahoo Says That Killing Working From Home Is Turning Out Perfectly — Greg Lindsay, Fast Company  Marissa Mayer, Who Just Banned Working From Home, Paid To Have A Nursery Built At Her Office — Nicholas Carlson, Insider  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In March 2007, Tim Ferriss told a room of over-caffeinated tech engineers that they were working too hard. That he was more successful doing much, much less. From that day on, Ferriss became known as the “4-hour guy,” turning his passion for productivity into a one-man franchise. This week, Rachael + Jennifer take time to consider how to save it, use it and even, waste it. Support Us  Get The Breadwinners t-shirts, stickers and more!    Episode Links  Revisiting ‘The 4-Hour Workweek’ -- Cal Newport, The New Yorker  Tim Ferriss Is Everything That's Wrong With the Modern World (and Why You Should Follow his Lead) — Michael Schein, Forbes  Tim Ferriss, the Man Who Put His Money Behind Psychedelic Medicine — Benedict Carey, The New York Times  How Tim Ferriss Beat Depression and Became an Inspirational Icon — Richard Feloni, Inc.  From Productivity to Psychedelics: Tim Ferriss Has Changed His Mind About Success — Clay Skipper, GQ  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When the pandemic forced non-essential workers home to work from the kitchen table, the bedroom, the backyard, they benefited from decades of improvements to technology and collaborative tools. In this episode, Rachael reveals how the modern era of work from home began — and its powerful impact on today’s changing workforce. Episode Links  Dad in Viral BBC interview Speaks Out  Our Favorite News Reporters Working From Home Bloopers  How the Coronavirus Outbreak Has – and Hasn’t – Changed the Way Americans Work  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, the typical public school year is 180 days long, leaving about 16 weeks of child care to be covered by working parents who have only two to three weeks of paid leave (if they have any at all). How did we get here and what happens when we try to change tradition? Jennifer + Rachael break out their calendars this week to track it all down. Support Us  Get The Breadwinners t-shirts, stickers and more!    Episode Links  The History of School and Summer Vacation — By James Pedersen  Year-Round Schooling Explained — By Jaclyn Zubrzycki  Popularity Grows Anew for Year-Round Schooling — By Madeline Will  The Pros & Cons of Year-Round School — By Brooke McGuire  First Days of School, Decade by Decade — By Elizabeth A. Harris  School's in: The History of Summer Education in American Public Schools – By Kenneth Mark Gold  Agrarian Roots? Think Again. Debunking the Myth of Summer Vacation’s Origins — By Saskia de Melker and Sam Weber  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Ann Romano to Clair Huxtable to Jane the Virgin, this week The Breadwinners take a deep dive into how modern working mothers have been portrayed on TV. Rachael shares her favorite takes, considers the time that the NYTs’s front page asked, “Is Murphy Brown really a tramp?” and lets Jennifer belt out the theme song to “One Day at a Time.” Sing along! Support Us  Get The Breadwinners t-shirts, stickers and more!    Episode Links  That Time ‘Murphy Brown’ and Dan Quayle Topped the Front Page — Jacey Fortin, The New York Times  Clair Huxtable's feminist rant — The Cosby Show  Working Women On Television: A Mixed Bag At Best — Neda Ulaby, NPR  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shocking news: Paying women less is nothing new. Back in the 1860s, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton made a case for bridging the wage gap even as they fought for our right to vote. Jennifer and Rachael consider what’s happened since as well as the impact the pandemic is having on women’s wages now.     Support Us  Get The Breadwinners t-shirts, stickers and more!  Episode Links Batgirl Teaches Batman a Lesson about Equal Pay  Quick Facts About the Gender Wage Gap — Robin Bleiweis, Women’s Economic Security for the Women’s Initiative at the Center for American Progress.  Why Salary History Bans Matter To Securing Equal Pay — Robin Bleiweis  Gender pay gap statistics  Women still earn less than men for comparable work in 2022 America — Greg Daughtery, Investopedia  Canadian women make 89 cents for every dollar men earn. Can new federal legislation narrow that gap? — Nick Boisvert, CBC News  The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap — AAUW  5 Facts About the State of the Gender Pay Gap — Janelle Jones, Department of Labor  The gender pay gap situation in the EU — European Commission    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With her red polka dot kerchief, blue work shirt and confident “We Can Do It” pose, Rosie the Riveter emerged an icon for working women during WWII. The men who created her, however, never meant for her to be permanent. In this episode, Rachael tells her story, from her birth to her disappearance in the 1950s to her rebirth — and shares what it took to make her possible in real-life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When it comes to feeding infants, we seemingly all agree that “breast is best.” In 2015, CDC reported that 83 percent of U.S. babies start out that way. But we didn’t always think this way. In this episode, Jennifer and Rachael dive into the pressure on new moms to not only breastfeed, but to breast pump as well and how it has impacted the workforce and public policy. Support Us  Get The Breadwinners t-shirts, stickers and more!    Episode Links  Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy — Courtney Jung  Where does the United States stand on breastfeeding? — Laura Santhanam, PBS Newshour  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pandemic pressures have pushed millions of women out of the job market. What will this mean for their careers and earning potential — and what really needs to change in order to support working parents’ ability to support their families? In this episode, Rachael and Jennifer dive deeper into The Great Resignation’s impact on women.  Episode Links  Women are leading the way in the ‘Great Resignation.’ Here’s what it means for employers and job seekers — Michelle Fox, CNBC  Why the Pandemic Is Forcing Women Out of the Workforce — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker  Women in the Workplace 2021 — LeanIn.org, McKinsey  During the "Great Resignation," women are changing jobs like never before — Aimee Picchi, CBS News  A Real-Time Look at The ‘Great Resignation’ — Luke Pardue, Gusto  2022 Employee Experience Trends: The 4 things your people need you to know — Qualtrics  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yet another phrase created with the influx of working moms into white-collar professions in the 70s and 80s, “work-life balance” has stuck around as the concept we love to hate. Where did it come from and where will go from here? Jennifer + Rachael break it all down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When the Family Medical Leave Act passed in January 1993, supporters hoped it was the first step to paid leave but here we are, still waiting. This week, we track the long and bumpy road to FMLA, look at what it actually offers and to whom, and try to name the five other countries that still don’t offer paid leave.  Support Us  Get The Breadwinners t-shirts, stickers and more!  Episode Links   Getting Paid While Taking Time: The Women’s Movement and the Development of Paid Family Leave Policies in the United States — by Megan Sholar  The World ‘Has Found a Way to Do This’: The U.S. Lags on Paid Leave — by Claire Cain Miller  Paid Leave Is Incredibly Popular — Even With Republicans — by Gregory Svirnovskiy  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When a 4.3 million workers in America quit their jobs in one month, they might be telling you something. In this episode, Rachael and Jennifer consider the factors driving the job market today — and whether calling it “The Great Resignation” is the right way to go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Women with children have been working as long as there have been women, babies and work — but the phrase “working mother” is a modern description. This week we launch Season Four with a deep dive into its complicated history.  Support Us  Get The Breadwinners t-shirts, stickers and more!    Episode Links  Employment Characteristics of Families — 2020  Nation’s Working Mothers Increase 800% Over Last 150 Years  It’s Time to Retire the Phrase “Working Mom” — by Katherine Goldstein and Jo Piazza  A Blast From the Past: 10 Cringeworthy Ads From Past Issues of Working Mother  The Working Mother as Role Model — by Anita Shreve  The Triumph of the Working Mother — by Stephanie Coontz  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In her most recent Women in the Workplace report, Stanford University sociologist, research and author Dr. Marianne Cooper reveals who is holding our workplaces together during the pandemic: “Women leaders are disproportionately doing the work to make their companies be better and do better. Their companies should do better by them.”  Please help us grow: Rate, review and subscribe to The Breadwinners today!  Episode Links  Research: Women Leaders Took on Even More Invisible Work During the Pandemic  Women in the Workplace 2021  Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times  Want more Jennifer? Visit Jennwork.com  Want more Rachael? Visit RachaelEllison.com  Want more Marianne? Visit MarianneCooper.com  Visit The Breadwinners Store!  Our music is “Run for your Money,” by Devil and Perfects.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At age 16, Dr. Mary Bell Carson was already starting her financial career, working as a bank teller in her hometown. After a career as a financial behavior expert in the military and government sectors, Dr. Carson now brings her expertise to Chief Financial Mom, where she helps moms make smart money decisions and have healthy financial relationships.    Episode Links  Chief Financial Mom  Real Money, Real Experts podcast  What Questions to Ask a Financial Planner  Brad Klontz’s Money Scripts test    Rate and review us — and visit The Breadwinners store today!  Our music is “Run for your Money,” by Devil and Perfects.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keeping track of passwords and logins can be hassle enough for us, but how about our parents and loved ones? Christopher Huziak of Final Security shares how his company is helping the Sandwich Generation deal with its digital legacy, whether for themselves or their parents and loved ones — and why it’s so important to protect it.    Episode Links  Final Security  Want more Jennifer? Visit Jennwork.com  Want more Rachael? Visit RachaelEllison.com  Visit The Breadwinners Store!    Our music is “Run for your Money,” by Devil and Perfects.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chelsea Brennan founded Smart Money Mamas to help women build thriving relationships with money — and teach their children the money lessons most of us never got. Today, her company is helping thousands of women create lasting financial change for themselves and their families. On this episode, Chelsea shares her tips for changing your POV around money with an eye towards building generational wealth. Episode Links  Smart Money Mamas  Rate, review and subscribe to us — and visit The Breadwinners store today!  Our music is “Run for your Money,” by Devil and Perfects.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sutter Health operations executive Cecilia Aviles returns to The Breadwinners to continue her conversation with Jennifer about life as a breadwinning mom. In this episode, she shares how raising two biracial daughters teaches her something new every day about race, gender and the next generation, as well as what surprises her most about living in the Sandwich Generation.  Episode notes  Episode 78: Crisis, Care and Creativity in the Pandemic  Rate, review and subscribe to us — and visit The Breadwinners store today!  Our music is “Run for your Money,” by Devil and Perfects.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices