The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
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The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
What many don’t see is the severe impact this is all having on women – the damage of pregnancy and maternity discrimination on our mental health, the pressure to be perfect, the physical exhaustion of attempting to do it all, the struggle with the lack of power and control because the system doesn’t work for us. It’s all too much.
Joeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
Many mothers look for part-time and flexible work so that they can manage all of this extra unpaid work, but only 10 per cent of jobs are advertised as part-time, with just 1 in 4 jobs specifying any type of flexible working,9 so many women are forced to work in jobs that are well below their skill level. On top of this, part-time work is paid at a
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‘The notion that mothers have choice…
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Joeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
‘If you look at other countries, which have very different legislative frameworks, women in those…
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Joeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
We know that a third of employers avoid hiring women of childbearing age,1 that 40 per cent of employers think women take advantage of their pregnancy in the workplace and that a third think women are less interested in their career once they get pregnant.
Joeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
‘You may think I’m being melodramatic but ask any mother what choices she would make if she had complete freedom, and I can guarantee you that her…
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Problems are messy and complicated: you can’t give a full answer as to why women have unequal access to the labour market in 90 seconds. It…
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Joeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
But maybe this is one reason why whe have be able to summarise our ideas well. Luggage and Shorthand analogy from RC Sproul.
‘Women choose to take time out of work to care for their children, or they choose to work fewer hours after they’ve had their kids because…
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Joeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
Once again, I have used the currency of friendship to leverage a childcare favour so that I can do some urgent work.