“Please don’t tell me that I need to have a baby to have this time off.”
A version of this article appeared in the March 2001 issue of Harvard Business Review.
Mommy-Track Backlash
Everybody at ClarityBase seemed to understand when one account manager—a working mother—got a special deal: Fridays off, limited travel, easy clients. But when other employees—namely, nonparents—started asking for similar treatment, the company found itself on the brink of an organizational firestorm.