Canada's only advocacy organization built entirely
by working mothers, for working mothers.
Moms at Work is funded by one thing: The women in our Collective.
No corporate sponsors. No government money. No strings attached.
The results prove it’s working.
Canada's only advocacy organization built entirely
by working mothers,
for working mothers.
Moms at Work is funded by one thing: The women in our Collective.
No corporate sponsors. No government money. No strings attached.
The results prove it’s working.
Who we are
Allison Venditti started Moms at Work after being off work for three years with a traumatic brain injury, with three kids under six.
She started it because the support didn’t exist.
She built it because she couldn’t not.
Seven years later, Moms at Work has over 70,000 followers across platforms, has influenced national legislation, testified at the Senate, and produced research that didn’t exist anywhere else in Canada. We have completed over 200 media interviews. We have helped working mothers collectively negotiate more than $5 million in salary increases.
We are not a Facebook group.
We are not a women’s networking club.
We are Canada’s only organization focused entirely on working mothers’ careers and the only women’s group doing this work.
That gap existed before us. We intend to close it.
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Who we are
Allison Venditti started Moms at Work after being off work for three years with a traumatic brain injury, with three kids under six.
She started it because the support didn’t exist.
She built it because she couldn’t not.
Seven years later, Moms at Work has over 70,000 followers across platforms, has influenced national legislation, testified at the Senate, and produced research that didn’t exist anywhere else in Canada. We have completed over 200 media interviews. We have helped working mothers collectively negotiate more than $5 million in salary increases.
We are not a Facebook group.
We are not a women’s networking club.
We are Canada’s only organization focused entirely on working mothers’ careers and the only women’s group doing this work.
That gap existed before us. We intend to close it.
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How we work
Most advocacy organizations in Canada run on government grants and corporate sponsorships. That money comes with conditions; stay non-partisan, don’t bite the hand, keep the tone palatable.
We watched that model. We built something different.
Moms at Work does not accept government funding. We do not accept corporate sponsorships.
We do not run on volunteer labour because building an organization on unpaid women’s work is exactly the problem we’re fighting against.
We are a profit-based organization. We have a small paid team of women who work remotely. We do the advocacy alongside the career support, because we treat it as what it is: essential work, worthy of paid time.
The women in our Collective fund this. That independence is what lets us say exactly what we think and stay in the room until the work is done.
How we work
Most advocacy organizations in Canada run on government grants and corporate sponsorships. That money comes with conditions; stay non-partisan, don’t bite the hand, keep the tone palatable.
We watched that model. We built something different.
Moms at Work does not accept government funding. We do not accept corporate sponsorships.
We do not run on volunteer labour because building an organization on unpaid women’s work is exactly the problem we’re fighting against.
We are a profit-based organization. We have a small paid team of women who work remotely. We do the advocacy alongside the career support, because we treat it as what it is: essential work, worthy of paid time.
The women in our Collective fund this. That independence is what lets us say exactly what we think and stay in the room until the work is done.
What we've changed
Here’s what independent advocacy looks like.
Pay transparency
Working mothers were applying for jobs with no idea what they paid.
Here’s how we changed that:
- Built grassroots pressure for four years — posting over 800 times on LinkedIn, creating Canada’s first pay-transparent job board, creating Canada’s only pay transparency handbook to help educate thousands of individuals and companies, doing hundreds of interviews
- PEI enacted pay transparency legislation: 2022
- BC enacted pay transparency legislation: 2023
- Ontario incorporated pay transparency into the Employment Standards Act: January 1, 2026
- New Brunswick and Manitoba: in progress
Download our free resource:
Pay Transparency Handbook
If you want to start the discussion of pay transparency at your company, download our FREE Pay Transparency Handbook.
We give you talking points and scripts to bring to the table.
Pay Transparency Handbook
If you want to start the discussion of pay transparency at your company, download our FREE Pay Transparency Handbook.
We give you talking points and scripts to bring to the table.
Childcare advocacy
Because more childcare support means more women in the workforce
$10 a Day Childcare
Here’s how we advocated:
- Advocated as part of the final push toward federal childcare legislation
- Partnered with other advocacy groups to create educational materials
- Hosted public meetings with the Federal Minister
- Created advocacy campaigns to put pressure on last standing provinces to sign the deal
Canadian Childcare Benefit
Here’s how we advocated:
- Our first advocacy project to help provide consistent income for all families in Canada raising children – included education campaign, social media campaign and op ed for the Globe and Mail
- Resulted in a public meeting with the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister as well as several women from Moms at Work
- The Federal government announced CCB benefit less than a year after the initial push
After-School Childcare
Here’s what we’ve got in the works:
Developing a proposal to expand the federal Student Summer Works program to year-round part-time positions, creating affordable after-school programs and addressing youth unemployment at the same time
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Parental Leave Top-Up Data
Moms at Work has created the first report of what Canadian companies offer for parental leave top up.
Designed to help companies create better programs and for parents who want transparency on what specific companies offer.
Parental Leave Top-Up Data
Moms at Work has created the first report of what Canadian companies offer for parental leave top up.
Designed to help companies create better programs and for parents who want transparency on what specific companies offer.
Employment Insurance Reform
Because women keep getting fired on maternity leave
Here’s what we are working on:
- Commissioned Canada’s first national survey on maternity leave experiences proving that 15% of women are terminated or not renewed during mat leave. That is five times the national average. Women need better protections
- Produced Canada’s first maternity leave survey to document women’s experiences on maternity leave – from that we created the first and only free comprehensive resource for parents in Canada answering the 100 most common questions parents have on maternity leave in partnership with 7 other organizationst termination rates at the federal and provincial level
- Worked with employment lawyers to build new case law protecting women fired during parental leave
- Organized free legal consults for Ontario mothers terminated because they became mothers, no financial questions asked
- Supported public media coverage for women taking employers to human rights tribunals, lowering the barrier for others to come forward
Download our free resource:
Moms at Work Canadian Maternity Leave Survey
The 2025 Canadian maternity leave survey showed that 15% of mothers are laid off or terminated during their leave.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Get the entire official report.
Moms at Work Canadian Maternity Leave Survey
The 2025 Canadian maternity leave survey showed that 15% of mothers are laid off or terminated during their leave.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Get the entire official report.
Return to Work after Mat Leave Handbook
Returning to work after maternity leave can be scary.
If you’ve got questions like, ‘Can I be terminated?’ or ‘What if I can’t find childcare?’ We’ve got answers.
Learn your rights AND get a bonus graduated return to work schedule, all for FREE.
Return to Work after Mat Leave Handbook
Returning to work after maternity leave can be scary.
If you’ve got questions like, ‘Can I be terminated?’ or ‘What if I can’t find childcare?’ We’ve got answers.
Learn your rights AND get a bonus graduated return to work schedule, all for FREE.
The Collective
The Collective is our membership community — 450 women who joined because they were tired of networking that doesn’t work, workplaces that don’t see them, and doing it all without a room of their own.
It is also what makes the advocacy possible.
Every Collective membership funds this work. Not a foundation. Not a grant. Not a corporate partner. The women who show up here are the reason we can walk into government meetings without anyone else’s agenda in the room.
If you want to be part of what comes next, the Collective is how.
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