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Did the partners in your group not talk to you about what promotion timelines look like when you got PT? In my opinion, it shouldn't be a surprise to not get promoted, someone should have talked about what going part time meant. I think it's (unfortunately) pretty common for timelines to get pushed when women reduce their hours (and sometimes just from leave itself).
Agree with this. My firm’s reduced hours policy expressly says that promotion timelines will be impacted (not just partnership, but progressing to the next year is impacted as well)
Sounds like you need to talk to someone higher up than your local manager and decide how much you do (or don’t) want to sacrifice now. Personally, I sacrificed when my children were really young so that I was a partner by the time they were a little older, but still young. I enjoyed the financial benefit, but more importantly, the autonomy as a partner. I’ve stepped back now because I no longer want the responsibility. I make decent money and still have decent autonomy.
I don’t particularly want to start fresh somewhere new (and I’m not sure I’d be able to keep the part time structure I have now). Just generally looking for thoughts, commiserating with other ladies who want PT after kids and how it impacted your longer term career.
First off, that sucks that this happened to you and nobody was straight with you beforehand so it came as a shock. I'm in a similar situation of 1) new child (my first is 4 months old) such that I value time with her over career advancement at this moment and 2) feeling generally undervalued at work. I tell myself that a career is a long thing and whatever role I have now doesn't have to be perfect or for forever if it allows me to have what I currently want the most (for me that's being fully remote and reasonable hours expectations). So you have to decide what you want the most right now and the best way to get that. And yes it's unfair that men generally don't have to choose or take a career penalty for choosing family time or at least not to the same extent.
For me it kinda sucked getting to this current set up but I feel like things are fine for now and I trust that I can find something else if and when I change my mind or reprioritize things (like trading fully remote for a stronger feeling of collegiality, or pay cut for even better hours). That said I'm 50/50 on applying for new jobs and mostly haven't yet bc it feels like a pain to update my resume or put together cover letters or writing samples.