I haven’t heard this term before, but I absolutely love it. From the Wall Street Journal’s How Stay-at-Home Moms Are Filling an Executive Niche: The decision among some highly educated women to stay home with children is sparking a countertrend: The rise of the mommy “SWAT team.” The acronym, for “smart women with available time,” is one mother’s label for all-mom teams assembled quickly through networking and staffing firms to handle crash projects. Employers get lots of voltage, cheap, while the women get a skills update and a taste of the professional challenges they miss. What a fantastic idea. The differentiation: Skilled workers taking temp projects isn’t new, of course.… Read More
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