The Mom Who Was Fired a Week Before Her Due Date

Two years after Naomi gave birth to her second child, she felt ready to unpause her career and return to the fashion industry, where she’d worked as a buyer for 15 years. But her children were young — 2 and 3 years old — and Naomi, then 36, didn’t want to commute daily from her home north of Manhattan. She craved a flexible, part-time role, and soon enough, she happened upon a seemingly perfect fit. The gig was at a trendy women’s fashion brand, and the contract stipulated that she work in the office on Mondays and Tuesdays and from home on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Naomi liked that arrangement. On the work-from-home days, she could get things done around the house and glimpse her children as they popped in and out with their nanny.

It’s the end of an era. The trailer for this Julianne Moore period piece has us clutching our pearls. Thousands of Starbucks workers are on strike today. The problem with budgeting apps. Want to help birds make it through the winter? Plant native berries. A portrait of a six-foot-five man as the ultimate babygirl. The Feds announced the largest-ever seizure of counterfeit goods in U.S. history yesterday. And remember that you’re never too old to make new friends.

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