Désirée Duchesne

May 12, 2023 | thephilanthropist.ca | Paulette Senior |Angela Long |Désirée Duchesne |Yvonne Rodney

As we celebrate our mothers and caregivers this Mother’s Day, we need to address the gendered catch-22 of motherhood, writes Paulette Senior. Philanthropy must move beyond the ethos of “motherhood as solution” or “motherhood as problem,” she says, and centre women’s humanity beyond their care work – and get ambitious about lightening their load. Mother’s Day has . In the United States in the mid-1800s, Mother’s Day focused on sanitation to curb high infant mortality.