We invite you to discover how mowom was born and why we're still here.
An idea that started as a personal solution for a CV with a gap. And that became a movement so that no mother ever has to apologize for her career path.
HOW MOWOM WAS BORN
In 2020, I made the decision to return to paid employment. I had left my job as an engineer to complete my studies in environmental management, and during that time, I also became a mother. When the time came to look for work, I faced something many women know well: a CV with a gap of more than two years, much of which I had dedicated to raising my child.
I didn't want to hide it. To me, all that time had brought real value. I looked for role models and found The Pregnancy Pause, a US-based initiative that I thought was fantastic, but which had no equivalent in Europe. So with help from my sister, who is a designer of websites and all their graphics, I created mowom and added my role as a mother directly to my CV, as if it were my current job.
This is how I introduced myself in selection processes: with my position as Mother in mowom.
In every selection process I participated in, people found it striking that I included this information. But I didn't find work. So I decided to create my own path and become self-employed. The project went on pause for a while, with the feeling of being alone in this. Until other women in similar situations found it. That was the push I needed to take it seriously again and keep spreading the word, now with more strength and with a team behind me.
WHAT MOWOM IS TODAY
What started as a personal solution became a collective project. mowom exists so that no mother ever has to justify her career path or apologize for it. So that raising children stops being a gap in the CV and starts appearing where it has always deserved to be: as real professional experience.
The project works on three fronts: supporting mothers in their return to work, making visible the women who in many cases have become entrepreneurs because of motherhood, and helping companies build cultures where the talent of mothers is not lost but leveraged.
MOTHERS
Support in career reinsertion. No apologies. No gaps.
ENTREPRENEURS
Visibility for women who have created their own path, many times because of motherhood.
COMPANIES
Organizational cultures where the talent of mothers is not lost, but leveraged.
WHAT DRIVE US
The ideological basis of mowom is ecofeminism: the current that connects the oppression of women with the exploitation of nature and that defends the idea that the work of caring for life has economic, social and emotional value that the market systematically ignores. Making it visible is the first step to changing it.
THE MOWOM TEAM
This project could not exist without the women who drive it forward. Each one contributes from her professional field so that mowom's message reaches further and with more impact.
MOWOM COLLABORATORS
mowom moves forward thanks to women who believe in the project and contribute from their experience altruistically. Communication, organization, legal perspective, research... Each collaborator adds value from where and when she can.
Do you want to be part of mowom?
mowom grows thanks to people who believe in the project. Whether you're a mother and want to take the step, you have a company and want to build a fairer culture, or you simply want to support the mission, there's a space for you.