Why Care? with Reshma Saujani and Tim Allen

Since 2020 when everyone was sent home, there’s been one change after another in how we live and work, right up to our current “new normal” of remote or hybrid work. While it’s too soon to tell if this is a permanent change, given the overwhelming number of working parents, it begs the question: Does the modern workplace work for parents? Reshma, Tim and guest

Blessing Adesiyan, founder of Mother Honestly (now MH Work Life), dig into new research from MH and Care.com that takes a hard look at where things stand. What are the pros and cons to having more flexibility and more control of your schedule? How has this enhanced your family, your career, or both? What about the gender gap? And while you may be flourishing, is your

employer? Does the modern workplace work for them too? Three years of turmoil and change…are we finally on solid footing? Is everybody winning? Tune in and find out, and hear Reshma and Tim’s thoughts on the conversations they’ve had throughout Season 1 of Why Care?.

Supporting families is one of the few true bipartisan issues so why has the government still failed to

create a care system that actually works? Sure, it’s a huge and complex undertaking, but America’s

created challenging systems at scale before. We built a public school system. We built Social Security.

We built Homeland Security. Why is care – something that impacts everyone and drives overall

economic growth – a problem no one is taking on? Reshma and Tim get the inside scoop from two

people who work directly with both Republican and Democratic leaders. Programming Note: This

episode was recorded just prior to the November mid-term elections.

Without much help from the government, parents – especially moms -- have historically been left to

their own devices to navigate between raising their kids and holding down jobs. But in recent years,

more and more employers have stepped up to support working parents with childcare benefits, and for

many, it’s become the difference between collecting a paycheck or not. Reshma and Tim talk with

innovative leaders at Best Buy and Synchrony about what it means to truly care about your workers and

the payoffs when you do.

So much of the childcare conversation these last few years has focused on moms…and perhaps that’s

part of the problem. Both moms and dads are impacted when childcare falls apart, but at the peak of

the pandemic childcare crisis, they were forced to find ways to share the caregiving load. New York

Times journalist Claire Cain Miller talks with Reshma and Tim about how having all parents involved in

childcare could be a key to lasting change.

Renowned economist Betsey Stevenson talks with Reshma and Tim about how much we cost our children and working women because America hasn’t prioritized investing in childcare.

Meet the hosts of Why Care? who are parents first, influencers second, and ready to lead a care revolution.