Cultivating Cultural Confidence: Embracing Your Identity, Owning Your Story, and Showing Up Authentically in Corporate America
with Evelyn M. Pérez-Albino
OFFICE HOURS: Holding Our Employers Accountable as We Work to Create Supportive Environments For Working Mothers
Pilar McDonald, Lola McAllister
As college students, it can be exhausting thinking about the looming decisions of having children and being able to balance that with our career aspirations. While it is an added stress, we both feel that we cannot step back and take the status quo in terms of gender norms in the workplace...
As college students, it can be exhausting thinking about the looming decisions of having children and being able to balance that with our career aspirations. While it is an added stress, we both feel that we cannot step back and take the status quo in terms of gender norms in the workplace and home. We are here to stand up for working mothers now and to reshape workforce expectations so that other women like us can dream to have our ideal careers and families.
In this chat, we want you to walk away with:
- Actionable ideas to advocate for in your workplaces to have a more supportive environment for working women
- Steps on how to support other women in your workplaces/finding a workplace ally
- Feel validated in your anger/overwhelm and work together to feel hopeful for the change that we can make in the future
Meet The Speakers
Pilar McDonald
Together, we are co-founders of Project Matriarchs, which we started as a way to support working mothers as a disproportionate burden of caretaking is often falling on them during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lola McAllister
We are working to pair college students with families to ease some of this burden with the intentions of keeping moms in the workforce. As two rising sophomores at Stanford and Brown Universities, we are focused on highlighting this issue in younger generations in an effort to demand more from our employers now and in the future.
