Smashing the motherhood penalty in Aotearoa.

Like a lot of good ideas, this one began with a problem nobody had solved: capable, experienced people stepping back from work when they had children, then finding the way back in much harder than it should be.

Not because the skills had gone anywhere. Because the hours on offer didn’t fit a family, the gap on a CV was read as a risk, and the roles that would have worked were never advertised as flexible in the first place.

Jobs for Mums exists to close that gap from both ends — helping parents find work that fits around their lives, and helping employers reach people they were otherwise going to miss.