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Fortune
Alena Botros

Childcare failures and a maternal health crisis are crushing working parents

(Credit: Kristy Walker for Fortune)

America is facing a crisis on two fronts: maternal health and childcare. And as you can imagine, it is women who bear the brunt. “We are the wealthiest nation that puts the least amount of money into childcare,” Reshma Saujani, founder of Moms First and Girls Who Code, said at the Fortune Most Powerful Women summit in Laguna Niguel, Calif., on Wednesday.

“Mothers are broken,” Saujani said. 

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