Today's New York Times spotlights a new organization involved in lobbying/activist work on behalf of our nation's mothers. But what really makes the article interesting is how it’s finally spotlighting in the mainstream media many issues that many have already been talked about for a long time around water coolers and in living room conversations about family finances.

Although the article doesn't mention it until the second page, it will come as a surprise to very few mothers "that mothers are less likely to be hired, will make less money, and are more scrutinized for wrongdoing than either single women or men." The article then goes on to quickly preview an upcoming study in the American Journal of Sociology that shows how employers are just as likely to interview fathers as single men and women, but significantly less likely if the candidate is a mother.

As our economy and society evolves from the traditional 1950s model of one wage earner to today's, whether by choice or financial necessity, two income couples, we seem to still have a lot of work to do to make sure mother's are given a fair shake in the workplace. At the very least the issue seems to be starting to get more media and political attention that it has in the previous 30 years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/22/fashion/22mothers.html?ex=1329886800&en=24377a846e8c9294&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink