Promotions hinge on a single early step. When the first jump to manager tilts, pay and titles drift for years. This documentary explainer follows how the “broken rung,” leave design, RTO rules, and childcare access shape careers for mothers, with the sharpest toll on Black women and Latinas. You get a clear playbook: written criteria, audited slates, real sponsorship, paid leave that people can use, flexible paths that stay promotion-eligible, and a quarterly scorecard leaders sign. The goal is simple and measurable. Turn invisible care into visible value so mothers advance on evidence, not hours in the room.

This documentary exposes the hidden labor that keeps homes and teams running. It shows how planning, monitoring, switching, and social glue drain hours, block promotions, and fuel burnout. It moves past blame to systems that work. Clear rotations, focus blocks, fair credit, and shared ownership turn invisible work into visible value. A cultural history lens meets a workplace documentary frame to replace guesswork with facts and a plan.

A clear, human documentary that follows families, clinicians, and employers navigating access after Dobbs—where a ZIP code can decide care, telehealth and shield laws redraw the map, pharmacies become front lines, and IVF faces courtroom shockwaves. This series treats reproductive health as lived reality and policy as something people feel at work, on buses, and across borders—an on-the-ground documentary about reproductive health and policy that shows what “After Roe” means day to day.