Chris McCall was getting ready for the birth of his second daughter in 2013 when the unexpected hit: He was let go after four years at agencyQ, a digital marketing company in Washington.
After a couple of months of looking for a job, and caring for an infant and her two-year-old sister, McCall and his wife, Rebecca, decided he would be a stay-at-home dad. His wife would earn the family paycheck.
A third daughter came in 2015, and McCall, 39, started to worry about his ability to get back into the job market. When he applied, he encountered an obstacle familiar to many workers: a bias against older employees and people with resume gaps.
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