Leave it to a bunch of NorCal power chicks turned family femmes to come up with what may be the best website for the working mom. Called YourOnRamp.com, the site, which JUST launched, was conceived by a group of highly educated and successful career women who took time off to raise children and then wanted to find family friendly jobs that utilized their skills, but didn’t require they punt their broods to live-in nannies or random relatives.

Sound familiar? If you’ve got kids and enjoy working, you already know the dilemmas associated with dealing with companies that don’t understand a high fever or no-show babysitter is cause for a hall pass or that school pick-up time is non-negotiable.

This brilliant site connects progressive companies that understand that by dangling flex time, freelance, and other mommy-friendly carrots they are likely to snare some of the nation’s best, most experienced, and currently underutilized talents (not to mention some of the world’s greatest multitaskers). It also offers step-by-step instructions on how to “onramp” and “offramp” (if you’re ready to take a break), discussion forums, and every other topic on a mommy’s mind.

Hurry up and get onboard if you’re job-seeking. From what I hear, when the founders first conceptualized YourOnRamp they sent out an e-mail to friends asking if they and other women they knew would be interested in such a site. They allegedly got around 10,000 responses. Mama mia!

–Erika Lenkert

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