Modern Motherhood

Workin’ Moms creator Catherine Reitman on being imperfect, tackling controversial topics and focusing more on dads.

- Courtney Shea

We’ve been saying that women can have it all for a long time now, but your show isn’t always so optimistic. What’s your take?

I think the most honest answer I can give is that you can have degrees of it all as long as you’re willing to compromise. You can have a foot in motherhood and career and relationship, but there are going to be days when your relationship is stronger and others when you feel like you’re killing it as a mom. In my experience, women don’t tend to get everything on the same day.

The show has resonated with a lot of actual working mothers. Is there one scene in particular they most often want to talk about?