"Mother's post" makes women's employment more warm

Interactive background

On the eve of Mother's Day, a report by the central media entitled "Have they alleviated their employment anxiety after opening the" Mother's Post "?" brought the "Mother's Post" into the public's view. According to rough statistics, several topics related to "Mommy Post" on Weibo generated about 20 million readers and more than 1000 messages within a week, more than 20 institutions published original articles on We Media, and many traditional and online media published relevant comments.

Behind the hot topic is the resonance of women's employment after childbirth. In fact, the reason why many Baoma decided to return to work is not just to make money. Last year, a survey on the current situation of "full-time mothers re employment" released by a recruitment platform showed that 90% of full-time mothers tried to return to the workplace. The top two reasons for their re employment are "realizing self value" and "not divorced from society", and the third is "easing the economic burden".

In reality, the posts needed by Baoma are nothing more than "flexible" and "flexible". At a time when the network technology is quite mature, many jobs do not have to be completed by sitting in the office all day. Women who have experienced childbirth tend to have clearer career planning, stronger resistance to stress, better execution, more emotional stability, and a more holistic view of overall work. "Mama Post" seems to be the welfare of Baoma, but it actually enlivens the massive talent pool and avoids huge waste of human resources. Therefore, the implementation of "Mother Post" is a win-win livelihood cause for women, enterprises and society.

Since the second half of last year, some provinces in China have successively issued regulations and notices on the implementation of the "mother post" employment model, established the "mother post" employer directory, clearly provided subsidies to employers, and carried out the identification of the provincial "mother post" employment base... At present, many places in our province are also carrying out relevant exploration, of which Putian has carried out earlier and achieved remarkable results. In this interactive survey, the reporter went deep into Putian to visit the operation of the "Mother Post", inspected the deficiencies and put forward suggestions. Stay tuned.

"Zai Zai, hurry up to go to kindergarten!" At 8:15 a.m. on the 8th, Putian citizen Xiao Si (alias) packed up, took his personal belongings, and pulled the child onto the electric bike. More than ten minutes later, she sent her 4-year-old child to the kindergarten and rushed to Putian Hengyu Shoes Co., Ltd. without stopping. At 8:50, Xiaosi arrived at the company's workshop to clock in and immediately sat at the "Mother's Post" station to operate the sewing machine skillfully.

"The company is very happy to provide jobs for Baoma, who are very careful and have high labor efficiency." The person in charge of the company said that according to the different performance and capacity of the textile machine, the company selected the appropriate post from the original process of the assembly line to set as the "mother post". The "Mama Post" works 5-8 hours a day, and has attracted more than 30 women to work, which not only alleviates the employment pressure of enterprises, but also enables more Baoma to have a stable income.

How to balance work and family is one of the practical dilemmas that many girls face after childbirth. In order to solve this problem, Putian Women's Federation carried out in-depth research. The survey results show that 90% of the surveyed Baoma are willing to return to the workplace on the premise of giving consideration to their families in order to share the family's economic pressure or realize their self-worth without being divorced from the society. As a result, Putian City actively explores and implements the "mom post" employment model. According to the distribution characteristics of the city's industrial chain and employment needs, it has set up 10 "Baoma · Dingliangzhu Mom Flexible Employment Bases", which are distributed in footwear, housekeeping, food, e-commerce and other industries, and has excavated more than 2000 "mom posts".

Xiangxiang (pseudonym) is a mother of two children and a postpartum physiotherapist, whose job is to help postpartum women do pelvic floor rehabilitation and lactation. The Xiyue Yuezi Center where she works provides a flexible work platform for "Mama Gang" employees, and reasonably arranges door-to-door service orders according to their time. Tie Lulu, the general manager of the company, said that "Mama Gang" can not only meet the employment needs of enterprises, but also tap the potential of female employees to help them gain more social recognition and sense of achievement.

The Women's Federation of Hanjiang District, Putian City, has given full play to the advantage of "Union", among local experts, "Tian Xiucai", skilled craftsmen, and new agricultural operators, excavated a number of mature and experienced "women prospering farmers", formed a "taste of mother" women's industrial alliance, covering farmers' cooperatives, family farms, agricultural enterprises, etc., and provided women with many jobs. Now, from March to April, Putian loquat production area is busy in picking, and urgently needs manpower. Hanjiang District Hagilu Loquat Rural Cooperative made early preparations, specially set up a "mother post" to hire women to pick and pack loquats.

The popularity of live broadcast with goods and e-commerce to help farmers has brought more technical convenience for flexible employment, and also provided more options for Baoma's employment.

Xiao Lin (pseudonym) is a single mother with one son and one daughter. Her husband died of liver cancer. "Because my parents in law didn't live with us, I still need to pick up and take care of the children, and I hope to have a suitable job". The staff of Putian Women's Federation and Xianyou County Women's Federation recommended her to take part in the 4-day e-commerce training of "Women's Exhibition Style Blooms Her Strength" according to her employment intention, which gave her a preliminary understanding of e-commerce; Coordinate with caring enterprises such as Putian Beikeni Garment Co., Ltd. to provide her with some clothes and lotus for sale without stocking up. Now, Xiao Lin has found out a set of e-commerce sales methods. His income has gradually increased and his family's life has gradually improved.

In the Jiuhua Base of Fujian Province Kaopu Life Service Co., Ltd., a demonstration base for women in green carbon sink agriculture in Fujian Province, Huang Lili, the person in charge, established a Baoma entrepreneurial team to provide technical and online sales training for Baoma groups, and carried out more than 200 live broadcast with goods, driving more than 300 rural women to increase their income.

There are more "mama posts", but some Baoma's anxiety still exists. The "mother post" specially set up is mostly labor-intensive posts in enterprises or seasonal picking posts in agricultural bases. Most of these jobs are paid by piece or by day, which is more suitable for women with low education background and single skills. The lack of development channels, limited job selection, temporary workers and other practical problems make it difficult for some Baoma to find jobs to play their own abilities and see no hope of growth and improvement in their careers.

To this end, Putian Women's Federation carried out a special plan for the cultivation of rural women craftsmen, established the first rural women craftsmen's college in China, carried out activities such as integration of production and education, inheritance of masters and apprentices, sending teachers to the countryside, and set up nine "rural women craftsmen training bases" in each county and district, such as lacquer, incense road, oil painting, sculpture, and e-commerce, to promote women's employment and entrepreneurship, and drive the development of rural characteristic industries. More than 500000 yuan has been invested to carry out order based skills training. At present, 9 classes of training have been held, including big paint technology, domestic service, e-commerce live broadcast, mother and baby care, and incense road skills. More than 400 trainees have been trained to further improve the professional skills of Baoma group.

Netizens leave messages

Netizen "Octagon Sheep": The establishment of "Mama Post" will help ease family and social pressure and promote family harmony. Mothers can realize their self-worth in their work, set an example for their children, and help their children grow. The establishment of "mother post" by the enterprise to care for female employees is a reflection of the enterprise's social responsibility, which helps to improve the social image of the enterprise and attract more outstanding talents. It is hoped that more enterprises can pay attention to this measure and contribute to building a better society.

Netizen "Shadow": I have been looking for "Mama Gang" for a year. It's a pity. It's all manual work and the employers are picky about it.

Netizen "Xingchen - 0108": The salary of "Mama Post" is pitifully low, and the post is also some temporary female factory workers. Generally, those who graduated from undergraduate or graduate school also feel out of place, and their self-confidence and self-esteem are lost.

Netizen "Little pudding bumping milk tea": What I do now is Baoma class. I earn 2000 yuan a month. Let's subsidize the family. I hope the country will give us some policies and arrange insurance.

Netizens' "joy all over the mountain": encourage employers to set up "mom posts" in many places. The difficulty is how to encourage them. If only a simple call, then employers have little incentive to implement. The key to the implementation of "mom post" is who will bear the cost. If there is no real gold and silver subsidy, the "mother post" is just a public welfare post, depending on whether the employer is willing to "generate electricity for love". Considering the corporate image, some enterprises may set up one or two posts symbolically, and then send a wave of publicity articles to put a wave of gold on their face, which cannot solve the practical problem.

In any case, this is a good start, at least indicating that the whole society has begun to pay attention to the raising cost. Finally, it is not recommended to call such a post "Mom Post", but "Child Care Post". Both full-time mothers and full-time dads are qualified to compete for such a post. Otherwise, it is easy to create a stereotype about the division of labor in childcare, which makes the society think that mothers should make sacrifices in childcare.

Netizen "Mr. Gong": "Mama Gang" should not only be a help provided by enterprises, but also a big move in the process of transformation and upgrading of the whole economic society. Providing more types of posts with more skill gradients, designing reasonable management systems, salary systems, and promotion systems, and allowing the "mother post" to span normal posts, will help people make the best of their talents. In this sense, the establishment of "Mom Post" is a two-way rush of enterprises and treasure mothers. However, the current "Mama Gang" is far from the point where people can make full use of it.

I advise Tiangong to be energetic again and demote talents regardless of style. The treasure of "Mama Gang" also needs enterprises to constantly explore and dig in practice to achieve a win-win situation for both enterprises and Baoma.

Netizen "Tang Fei": childcare women are important human resources. After a short adaptation, many people can be competent for more important positions. After completing the role change, their loyalty is worthy of trust. Therefore, first of all, enterprises should be encouraged to set up "mom posts", and they should not be treated differently with colored glasses. The second is strict management. Management measures should be formulated. There should be no empty name of "mother post", or even fraud of subsidies. Moreover, "mother post" should not be turned into "punishment" for childcare workers. The third is to give strong support. Strengthen the construction of fertility friendly workplaces, provide more policy support and care to relevant enterprises, reduce their burden, and let them go into battle with light load.

Netizen "Tangshan guest": Many Baomamas are very excellent. Before giving birth to a baby, they may be department heads, business backbones, and experts. Although there was a period of "gap" in work because of giving birth to a baby and raising a baby, their ability and experience are still there, and they are confident and willing to return to the high-quality "mother post". This puts forward higher requirements for "Mama Gang".

"Mama Gang" has both quantity and quality. In the process of expanding the "mother post", local governments, human resources and social security departments, relevant industry associations, employers, etc. should see the needs of some Baoma for "counterpart posts", stable posts or high-quality posts, set up multi-mode, multi type of work, multi-level "mother posts", and constantly improve the management mechanism and standards, ensure labor treatment, and optimize the labor environment, Smooth the rising channel, and enhance the standardization, long-term and stability of the "mother post". At the same time, it is also possible to consider the connection of home office, unfixed working hour system, comprehensive working hour system and other labor modes, and transform some posts into "mom posts" on the premise of retaining the original benefits.

Department Answer

Provincial Women's Federation: Let Baoma be employed, better employed and better employed

Since 2023, the Provincial Women's Federation has focused on women whose employment has been interrupted due to childbirth, implemented the "Three Hundred Baoma Flexible Employment Action", launched more than 800 women's enterprises and bases, excavated and released 66000 "mother posts", carried out 469 Baoma empowerment training sessions, and trained 16900 Baoma people, helping Baoma to be able to find employment, good employment, and good career, so as to ensure that both employment and family care can be achieved.

Increase technology and enable Baoma to work. According to the actual situation of Baoma group, such as lack of technology and staying at home, we actively cooperated with human resources and social security, agriculture and rural areas, cultural tourism and other departments, and held Baoma skills improvement training classes in domestic service, cross-border e-commerce, home stay management and other industries. Sanming Women's Federation carried out a special skill training class for Shaxian snacks and Hakka snacks, held a competition for Shaxian snacks production skills, and enriched the employment and entrepreneurship characteristics of Baoma groups. The Women's Federation of Fengze District, Quanzhou City held a series of public service training activities of Internet+"Mommy Post", to hand teach Baoma's skills of shaking sound live broadcast with goods. The provincial women's federation focused on the new business form of rural homestay suitable for the employment of Baoma group, and held the "training on empowerment and improvement of homestay women".

Dig the potential and expand the post, so that Baoma can get a good job. In combination with the actual employment situation of enterprises and women's flexible employment needs, we actively visited the executive committee enterprises of the Women's Federation, group member enterprises, women's demonstration bases and women's civilized posts, organized 100 enterprises and bases to provide jobs, set up "flexible mother posts" that can be taken off at any time, "Baoma teams" that can choose time periods, and "mobile mother posts" that can be taken home to work, and actively explore e-commerce operations Live broadcast anchor, cultural and creative planning and other highly independent and flexible "new business mom posts". Strengthen the job promotion, release the "Mom Post" through the WeChat matrix of the Women's Federation system, the "odd jobs platform" of the Human Resources and Social Security Department, as well as the "Baoma Service Posthouse" and other channels, carry out the "Mom Post" live broadcast activities, and hold the "Spring Breeze" women's job fair. For example, four enterprises in Liancheng County Ecological Science and Technology Park customized flexible jobs for women, added more than 400 "mom posts", and recruited more than 300 Baoma.

Care for rights and let Baoma have a good career. We will optimize the soft environment, promote the inclusion of "protecting the rights and interests of women workers in flexible employment and new forms of employment" in the newly issued Regulations of Fujian Province on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests, and take the lead in providing free "two cancers" screening services and other provisions for women workers in flexible employment and new forms of employment. Actively coordinate relevant units such as human resources and social security, education and health care, promote the implementation of existing support policies, and give more support in strengthening skills training, supporting the development of part-time economy, sharing the smart platform for flexible employment, improving the quality of childcare services, and expanding inclusive preschool education resources. Open the 12338 women's rights protection public service hotline channel, provide online psychological consultation, timely check and deal with problems related to gender discrimination in employment, and help Baoma resolve pressure and build confidence.

Expert opinion

Promote the construction of a fertility friendly society

How can "Mommy Post" achieve the goals of improving family income, enhancing self-worth, promoting parent-child relationship, and strengthening family cohesion? To this end, the reporter interviewed Zhang Li, a professor and doctoral supervisor of the Law School of Fujian Normal University, and vice chairman of Fujian Marriage and Family Law Research Association.

Zhang Li analyzed that as a new form of employment that gives consideration to both family and work, "Mommy Post" not only helps to solve the employment problems of some women, but also brings a broader positive impact on enterprises and society.

For Baoma, it can better balance the relationship between work and family life; Return to the workplace to realize the synchronous growth of personal value and social value; Reduce the family's financial burden. For enterprises, it can alleviate the employment problem; Undertake social responsibility, convey care for employees and improve the corporate image. For the society, it is helpful to optimize the labor market structure by innovating the allocation of human resources; Promote the construction of a fertility friendly society.

Zhang Li believes that "Mama Gang" will face some problems in practical operation. First, the risk of labor rights protection. As some "mom posts" are temporary workers, Baoma may be different from regular employees in terms of social insurance, welfare benefits, career development, etc., which is easy to cause labor disputes. The second is promotion and career development. Some special "mom posts" lack promotion channels and career planning, which limits the long-term career development of employees. Third, supervision and law enforcement are difficult. Due to the flexibility of the workplace and time, it is difficult for the labor department to supervise in time, and it is even more difficult to investigate and collect evidence.

In order to make the "Mommy Post" a healthy and sustainable career, Zhang Li suggests taking the following measures. The first is to ensure that the "mother post" employees sign a formal labor contract with the employer, specifying the rights and obligations of both parties, including the work content, working hours, wages, social insurance and other key terms. This will help protect the legitimate rights and interests of employees and provide a legal basis for resolving disputes. The second is that employers or relevant departments and groups pay social insurance premiums for "mom post" employees, including medical insurance, work-related injury insurance, etc. This helps to provide necessary security for employees and reduce the economic burden caused by unexpected risks. Third, the Women's Federation and other organizations should strengthen the contact with the employees of "Mama Post", safeguard their legitimate rights and interests, listen to the demands of employers, establish and improve the mediation mechanism of labor disputes, and jointly protect the healthy development of "Mama Post", a new thing. (Solemn reporter)