The search for balance in life and work is finally making a change for women in the workplace. The so-called “Mommy Track 2.0″ is finally becoming a reality, reports the Los Angeles Times. It’s neither “have-it-all and do-it-all” nor quit and stay home with the kids.

The new approach in much of corporate America is flexible hours or part-time work without being side-tracked. The paper offers examples of companies or professional firms with programs for working mothers. Typically, it’s a half-time or two-thirds load and a much longer stretch before they’re expected to make partner or get promoted.

There is a change of heart in some places but not all. Lots of places still expect a full performance to win clients and just to be taken seriously. They don’t make an appearance in this story. It remains the “Mommy Track,” of course, because it’s mostly moms who take it. Very few fathers take lighter duties to parent because they’re afraid of being taken as lightweights, the paper reports.

And 2.0 is no easy course. There’s still all that commuting and dressing and getting kids to school and … well, you know. But it sure is progress from what went before.