“In Defense of the Mommy Track”

Lisa Heffernan writes in Vox about the Mommy Track and the success that companies find when they manage it well.

Vodafone, the telecommunications giant, announced in March that it was changing its global policies for new mothers. Beginning this year, all women will be offered 16 weeks of paid maternity leave and the ability to work a 30-hour week at full pay for six months after they return. Vodafone made this policy change after it found that 65 percent of the women who left the company foll...