When Mom’s Career Takes Priority

Do women with supportive husbands, especially those who take on significant childcare responsibilities, have more career success? There isn’t any data on this yet, but there is anecdotal evidence that having dads more involved benefits moms.

Organizations that are committed to advancing women’s careers, embodied by the NAFE Top 70 Companies for Executive Women, increasingly recognize that having support at home is critical to career success—73 percent offer backup emergency childcare, 74 percent offer gradual return-to-work-after-baby programs, and 100 percent offer fully paid maternity leave.

More successful women today cite supportive dads, who put their partners’ careers first, as helping them