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Working Moms-to-Be: It’s Even Worse Than You Thought

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Posted on Jan 20, 2006

Guardian: From the moment they give birth, women get stuck on a “mummy track” of low pay and low prospects as their wages fall and never fully recover - even when their children have left home, a new study has found.

Far from being a liberating release, the point when their children start school marks another sudden slump in the average growth of women’s pay compared with male wages, according to the report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. | story

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By quattr0ne, January 20, 2006 at 6:23 am #
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I have news for you—men dont recover either.  Having children is a life altering event, like the death of a spouse, or a change in profession.  Nothing is the same after.

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