NATIONAL WORKING MOTHERHOOD WEEK
September 21-25, 2026 - Virtual, U.S.
The system was never built for working mothers. Not the workplace. Not caregiving logistics. Not the leave policies, the reentry plans, or the mental health support. What you're navigating isn't a personal failing — it's a structural one.
National Working Motherhood Week exists to name that reality and start rebuilding it together.
Reaching 5 million+ working mothers across a national ecosystem
National Working Motherhood Week is bringing together 70+ experts, leaders, organizations, and working mothers across the United States to build the support that should already exist.
The reach compounds across every channel: live and recorded panels shared by contributors and attendees, 1:1 expert interviews, community village sessions, a national documentary, a free resource hub, and a social media campaign — each one driving mothers to the next. This isn't one platform reaching 5 million. It's an ecosystem that keeps moving after the week ends.
A five-day national (U.S.) initiative focused on:
• Practical support for working mothers
• Workplace responsibility and structural redesign
• Maternal mental health, ambition, and identity changes
• Shared responsibility at home and in culture
What is national working motherhood week?
Working motherhood is hard in ways that are specific, nameable, and structural. The mental load. The reentry friction. The childcare math that doesn't work. The identity shift no one prepares you for.
Most of the resources that exist are scattered, shallow, or designed for someone else's version of this experience.
National Working Motherhood Week changes that. We're consolidating expert insight, research, and practical guidance into one free, permanent resource hub — organized around what working mothers actually navigate: pregnancy and leave planning, pumping at work and legal rights, postpartum mental health, career and leadership strategy, identity shifts, partner and household systems, childcare infrastructure, and more.
The Resource Hub launches during National Working Motherhood Week and stays live permanently — a free, searchable library of expert guidance, tools, and resources for every stage of working motherhood. No paywalls. Built to last beyond the week.
The National Working Motherhood Resource Hub
working motherhood documentary
Alongside an award-winning producer, we're creating a documentary that names what working mothers are navigating — the structural friction, the design failures, and the real work being done to rebuild. Not a soft story. An honest one.
The trailer will be coming in end of summer.
More details coming soon…
For working mothers:
Join the movement — get updates, resources, and access to the week as we build it.
For organizations:
Interested in partnering with us? Let’s rebuild the support for working moms together
how the week works
Watch & Learn
Live panels and 1:1 interviews with 70+ experts streamed throughout the week and available on demand after. Watch live when you can, catch the recording when you can't. Every session lives permanently in the free resource hub after the week ends.
Get in the Room
The Village Sessions are live community gatherings, not webinars. Each session brings working mothers together in small breakout groups around a specific theme, then reconvenes for a live Q&A with an expert host who answers questions directly. Four sessions across the week, each with a different focus.
Come Back Anytime
Everything from the week — panels, interviews, resources, tools, and expert guides — lives permanently in the National Working Motherhood Resource Hub. Free, searchable, no paywall. Built to be useful long after September.
Monday — Live: The State of Working Motherhood 2026
The opening, live conversation on systems, care, and structural responsibility.
The Village Session: Mom Founder Networking - for mothers building something of their own.
Tuesday — Redesigning Work for the Reality of Motherhood
Support for mothers at work: Workplace structures and corporate accountability.
The Village Session: Navigating Work — maternity leave, returning to work, pumping, and advocating for yourself.
Wednesday — Ambition, Identity, and the Cost of Carrying It All
Support for mothers: The mental and emotional load of working motherhood.
The Village Session: Burnout & Mental Health — naming what's hard, with support from experts.
Thursday — Care Is Infrastructure: Shared Responsibility at Home and Work
Support for mothers from home: Spouses, dads, partners, childcare, household logistics and systemic support.
The Village Session: Mental Load & Household — the invisible logistics, and systems that actually help.
Friday — What Changes Now
Commitments, workplace pledges, progress, and the next chapter for working moms.
More details and links to register to watch the live panels and interviews coming soon…
WALL OF FAME
Founding partners will be announced here as we confirm them.
Interested in being part of this?