For years, mothers have been handed the same impossible brief: work like you don't have children and parent like you don't have a job. But what if you could reject that – and parent like you have a job and work like you're a parent?
Drawing on research, hard-won lessons, thousands of conversations, and their own experiences raising five young children between them, Lu and Loz tackle the questions mums ask from the trenches of paid working motherhood – all while wondering why nobody ever told them it would be this hard.
How does matrescence influence the way you see your work, your career and yourself? How do you ask for flexibility without limiting your career? What happens when ambition changes after children? (And is it actually an ambition change or is it that you’re working in a system that doesn’t work for you?) How do you manage the mental load, set boundaries, get a pay rise and navigate the constant trade-offs that come with raising a family while building a career?
While challenging expectations and structures that for too long have made the workplace feel impracticable for mums, Work like a Mother isn’t a ten-step plan to ‘having it all’. It’s a realistic guide to help you define success on your own terms by giving you the tools, language, knowledge and confidence to make work, work – whatever that looks for you and your family.
