Mothers who stepped out of work to raise kids have management skills companies are ignoring. Running a household teaches the same skills needed for service manager, implementation manager, and administrative roles. Hiring them back strengthens leadership pipelines and fixes a massive talent waste.
I think the biggest untapped female resource is mothers who took some time off to raise their kiddos, right? That is something that has not been appreciated. I didn't do that because we wouldn't have all survived. I'm not built for that. It takes a special sort of, of woman to stay home with the kids and a special sort of man, right? Like, I get that men do that too.. But that is a management job. Staying home with kids is a management job. So a mom who has been home with their kids for 5 years and now their kids are in school, they've been managing the crap out of their household for 5 years. And they can be an amazing service manager, amazing implementation manager, amazing admin manager. Like start bringing those people into, into the fold so that people see and represent that. And then you will get stronger leaders applying because the advice that I just gave females is going to limit you, right? Until you start getting people into your organization in those roles.
