What Happens After Maternity Leave?

Pamela Stone, sociology professor at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, author of Opting Out and co-author of Opting Back In: What Really Happens When Mothers Go Back to Work (University of California Press, 2019), and Meg Lovejoy, a sociologist and research program director for the Workplace and Well-being Initiative at the Harvard Center for Population and Development and lead researcher on Opting Back In, share the results of their study of what happens when executive-track women try and reenter the workforce after taking time for raising their children.