Op-Ed in NY Daily News
DAILY NEWS OP-ED
Stay-at-home, stuck-at-work and in between…Where can moms actually thrive?
There I was, IV in my arm, heavily in labor with my second child, desperately scrolling through resumes on my cell phone, trying to replace members of the successful 17-person Us Weekly video unit I launched who were now fleeing. Even though no one in my department had gotten fired, many wanted out amid the carnage of layoffs after a messy takeover. I was one of the few remaining employees standing (or laying). I’d heard about such women, so chained to their jobs that they were working from the delivery room. Funny, I thought — until I realized that was me.