We Can Be Both: Mothers at Work, A message from our Friends at Patagonia

Every day in America, women return to work after the birth of a child to find an unsupportive environment lacking on-site child care, lactation programs and paid medical leave. No wonder there is an alarming lack of women in positions of leadership, board rooms and public office. Women will never be able to effectively “lean in” without the proper economic, social and community support for the most critical work of all: raising the next generation.

Patagonia has offered quality on-site child care for over thirty years. In this video, Patagonia working mothers tell what Patagonia’s Great Pacific Child Development Center means to them. As one says about having her children at work with her everyday, “It’s not just making a living, it’s making a life.” On-site child care, especially for infants, is a critical element of doing business in our time—and it’s proven to be good for business.