How You Can Support The Park
Around eight years ago I was at my desk in Palo Alto shuffling between writing scripts on maternity leave benefits and swiping mostly left on Tinder. In less than a year I had swiped right for the last time and become the maternity leave expert at GuideSpark (now Tivian). When the commute down and up the peninsula became too much I left GuideSpark and hoped to never read a maternity leave benefits plan again. Like I said, I had just swiped right to land my stud of a boyfriend (now husband) so having a baby and needing maternity benefits was not on my radar.
Well life comes full circle and here I am, starting my own business (that’s still super weird to say but I’m practicing writing and saying it confidently) rooted in maternity leave. And I am freaking excited.
So today, on my 36th birthday, I am launching The Park—an inclusive community of working moms and a resource hub of info and advice to help working moms thrive.
While The Park is designed for working moms, we need everyone to join us in fighting to close the wage gap and get federal paid leave. Some may point out dads also need paternity leave benefits and I will only partially agree with them. Parental leave (leave for both co-parents of any gender) is incredibly important, but men don’t have hundreds (thousands?) of years of a patriarchal society squashing them into a corner.
Let’s change the working mom narrative into one that closes the wage gap, provides supportive paid family leave, ensures a safe workplace, and offers equitable career opportunities no matter where a woman is in her motherhood journey.
Here’s how you can help support The Park:
If you’re a mom, hope to be a mom one day, or a woman who cares about moms join The Park Facebook community, introduce yourself, tell us how the group can help you, and share your maternity leave experience.
Sign up for our newsletter. Once a month I’ll send you remote mom-friendly jobs, maternity leave tips, advocacy opportunities, and events.
Follow The Park on Instagram and engage with our posts, even if it’s just an emoji. But saving them in Instagram or sharing them with a friend is extra helpful for the terrible algorithm.
Email your senators, asking them to save national paid family and medical leave. Just fill in your name and click send. And if you think this benefit doesn’t apply to you because you aren’t having kids/aren’t having any more kids/etc., this benefit applies when you need to take time off to care for your mom, partner, child, etc., if they were to get sick. Everyone benefits from paid leave
Tell your neighbors, friends, colleagues, grocery clerk and barista about The Park.
Thank you for your support! I’m so happy you’re here!
