The New York Times named it one of 2007's top buzzwords... but what exactly is it?

Do you know what Maternal Profiling is? We didn't until we took this pop quiz from our friends from MomsRising.org. Maternal Profiling is employment discrimination against a woman who has, or will have, children. According to MomsRising, women without children make 90 cents to a man's dollar, but women with children make only 73 cents to a man's dollar. And single mothers make about 60 cents to a man's dollar. Does this piss you off as much as it does us? No woman deserves to be discriminated against just because she's a Mom! We called MomsRising.org to find out how Moms can rally against this...

"82% of American women have children by the time they are 44 years old, and the types of discrimination these women face are broad," Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, co-founder and Executive Director of MomsRising.org, told Mom•Logic. "A recent study found that mothers are 79% less likely to be hired than non-mothers with equal resumes and job experiences."

"As we've talked about this problem across the nation with other mothers, we're finding this has been an individual problem for so many," says Rowe-Finkbeiner. "By banding together, women are now realizing we have a societal issue that needs to be addressed. The U.S. really lags behind in terms of being family friendly. Out of 173 countries, only four have no paid leave for new mothers--Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, Liberia and the U.S.A." Shocking.

Have you experienced Maternal Profiling firsthand? Tell us about it!