Mothers Day Special with Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code and leader, the Marshall Plan for Moms

You know, one of the things that I think I get nervous about in this moment is, as you've seen, we've seen everybody's life on the Zoom screen. You've seen my son interrupt me a hundred times. You see my bedroom where I work. And, I think, in the beginning, a lot of us were turning off our video and muting the sound because we knew intellectually that we were going to pay the cost of you seeing our mothering ... I really question whether now that you've seen my life and the work that I do—the extra, unvalued unpaid labor that I do at home—whether employers are walking around right now being like 'Uh, I gotta hire a mom.

70% of low-income families are run by single breadwinners, which are women and often women of color. When they lose their job, the entire family suffers.

I started Girls Who Code because I wanted to get to gender parity in the workforce. And what we forget about women in coding and women in engineering is we were almost at parity in the 1980s. In the 1980s, 37% of the technology workforce was female ... When I started Girls Who Code, it was was 18, and now we've slowly climbed to 22.

I think, from a paid perspective, it's like 17 cents on every dollar that a father makes over a mother for the exact same job.

If we're going to build America back better, we have to build motherhood back better.