Dr. Laura Riley, director of labor and delivery at Massachusetts General Hospital, and her mother, Catherine Riley, who is retired from Boston Children’s Hospital, sat down to talk about the obligations and expectations of working moms then and now. While both agreed that women today have made significant gains in the workforce in the last few decades, they also said women are still expected to be the primary caretaker for their family in addition to being a productive employee at work. As the 2017 Modern Family Index survey from Bright Horizons found, this imbalance of responsibilities can lead to burnout and hold women back from reaching their full potential.