Since January 2025, more than 212,000 women have left the U.S. workforce, and a closer look shows it's overwhelmingly mothers with young children. Flexible work is vanishing, inclusive workplaces are retreating, affordable childcare is still nowhere to be found. Erica calls it what it is: the Mom Exodus. Drawing on her own return from maternity leave a decade ago, she breaks down why moms are leaving, what it costs all of us, and what has to change before the ripple effects l