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Definition of mommy track in English: mommy tracknoun North American informal An interrupted or delayed career path followed by women as the result of bringing up a family. Example sentencesExamples - Similarly, there's no question that there's an academic mommy track and that it has derailed many a promising career.
- The woman who defined the mommy track was a powerful professional; those that attacked her were less professional than she but more ideological.
- Clearly, the percentages don't work out and this does not even account for the number of women who choose a mommy track to raise their families.
- There is a daddy track analogous to the so-called mommy track, says the author of Stay at Home Dads.
- Since the late '80s and the debut of ‘the mommy track,’ we have been subjected to these stories about mothers seeing the light and chucking it all for junior.
- That's not discrimination, or women paying a mommy tax for their mommy tracks, as feminists claim; it's simply a choice.
- Blaming the lack of family-friendly policies hardly resolves the dilemma: In European countries such as Sweden, family-friendly policies often keep women on the mommy track.
- In fact, racism and sexism may make us even more hesitant to trade the fast track for the mommy track, even temporarily.
Phrases Example sentencesExamples - Although the number of women in academia continues to rise, much of the increase has occurred in non-tenure-track positions and at nondoctoral institutions, partly because of ‘mommy tracking.’
Derivatives noun North American informal noun North American informal Although the number of women in academia continues to rise, much of the increase has occurred in non-tenure-track positions and at nondoctoral institutions, partly because of ‘mommy tracking.’
Definition of mommy track in US English: mommy tracknoun North American informal A career path for women who opt to sacrifice promotions and pay raises in order to devote more time to raising their children. Example sentencesExamples - There is a daddy track analogous to the so-called mommy track, says the author of Stay at Home Dads.
- That's not discrimination, or women paying a mommy tax for their mommy tracks, as feminists claim; it's simply a choice.
- The woman who defined the mommy track was a powerful professional; those that attacked her were less professional than she but more ideological.
- Clearly, the percentages don't work out and this does not even account for the number of women who choose a mommy track to raise their families.
- In fact, racism and sexism may make us even more hesitant to trade the fast track for the mommy track, even temporarily.
- Blaming the lack of family-friendly policies hardly resolves the dilemma: In European countries such as Sweden, family-friendly policies often keep women on the mommy track.
- Since the late '80s and the debut of ‘the mommy track,’ we have been subjected to these stories about mothers seeing the light and chucking it all for junior.
- Similarly, there's no question that there's an academic mommy track and that it has derailed many a promising career.
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