by Valerie Young and Jocelyn Crowley We see it all around us: mothers are harried, overworked, and encounter endless obstacles as they work and raise their kids. Workplace flexibility initiatives can help, whether initiated by the mother’s employer or promoted by the government. Yet these options remain unavailable to a significant number of mothers. So what can we do about it? We started out in separate corners on this issue. Jocelyn Crowley, as the academic, began work in 2008 on a large study to understand certain types of mothers' groups in the United States. These are groups that tend to...