A couple of weeks ago, I wondered about working mothers who lie to their bosses about scheduling issues that come up because of child care problems — the sitter is late, the nanny cancels, a child is sick. 

While there were a mix of answers, I heard from a good number of women who admitted that, yes, there are times when it’s just better to say they were late to the office because traffic was heavy, when it wasn’t, rather than risk compromising their jobs and promotion opportunities for being seen as too motherly and uncommitted to the workplace because the real reason was family care.

It turns out that the moms who fib every now and then have good reason — Read the rest of this entry »