Working Moms-to-Be: It’s Even Worse Than You Thought
You've heard that having a child sets you back seven years in the workplace? Well, according to a new study, a woman's wages never fully recover--even after the child leaves home. | storyGuardian: 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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