The Mom Project raises $25M for its job site aimed at working mothers –
Summary
Women have long had the short end of the stick when it comes to employment, regularly finding themselves struggling to break through the glass ceiling for promotions and on average getting paid less than their male counterparts. To underscore that, The Mom Project — a Chicago startup that focuses on connecting women, including parents, with jobs from organizations specifically open to employing people who meet that profile — is announcing a $25 million round of funding to expand its business. While there are a lot of job boards online — indeed recruitment dot-coms were some of the first successful businesses in the earliest days of the World Wide Web, meaning there are giant legacy players out there — The Mom Project is a strong example of how that model has been evolving. The Mom Project’s platform enables corporates to source, onboard and manage variable labor at the highest skill level, a function historically that has been offline and manual for FTEs and even more so difficult for flexible employees,” said Jack Leeney, founding partner at 7GC, in an emailed interview. “In our diligence, the value add to senior HR managers of an analytic platform that enables the oversight of a variable work force was the single most important factor to integrating The Mom Project initially and at scale.