A recent post by Reshma Saujani stopped me in my tracks: 455,000 women left the workforce last year, and nearly half cited caregiving responsibilities as the reason.

At the same time, a recent Fast Company article highlighted how Corporate America is crushing senior-level mothers, the very leaders that companies spent decades trying to elevate. Women described impossible schedules, “dystopian hacks,” and the exhausting pressure of trying to succeed professionally while carrying the invisible labor of caregiving personally.

This is not a pipeline problem. It is a workplace design problem. And the truth is, it’s not that complicated. If companies can redesign entire business models around AI in a matter of months, they can redesign workplace systems around humans too.

Read more at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/shelleyzalis/2026/05/28/why-women-are-leaving-the-workforce-and-how-companies-can-fix-it/