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
We face a whole array of challenges in this area, from basic considerations, like earning enough money, to worrying about how we’ll be perceived by people around us for taking a different approach to work and life, to even feeling a sense of guilt for “giving up” what so many hardworking women struggled to have the opportunity to achieve.
Katherine Kay • Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
I still strongly believe that women can “have it all” (and that men can too). I believe that we can “have it all at the same time.” But not today, not with the way America’s economy and society are currently structured.
Anne-Marie Slaughter • Why Women Still Can’t Have It All
Around half of Australian women go back to work in the first year of their baby’s lives,
Pamela Douglas • The Discontented Little Baby Book
It’s promoting breastfeeding because it’s “free” when it can be a full-time job. It’s mothers being offered lower salaries than men or women without children. It’s mothers being less likely to be hired than men or women without children. It’s fathers taking on extra jobs in the evenings, to make up for the loss of a second income. It’s the privatiz
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