The new ‘mommy track’: Working moms are founding startups to solve problems the government and Corporate America won’t

When Stephanie Fornaro was 5 and her younger brother was 6 months old, her mother left and did not come back. When Fornaro had her own children, she vowed she would do better. She left her sales job in preparation for the birth of her second child in 2017. But after the birth, Fornaro struggled. Her husband, an entrepreneur, was on the road half the time. And she was lost in a fog of postpartum depression. Fornaro didn’t want to hire help. “It felt like I was failing as a mother because I was...