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
It’s my standard pre-interview ceremonial dance; I’m like Anthony Joshua with gender equality data for boxing gloves.
Joeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
‘What I am saying is that women don’t make choices in a vacuum. Choices are influenced by a number of factors: culture, your…
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Joeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
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.
‘Well, it’s the usual suspects: Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden. The countries where childcare is properly subsidised, where ring-fenced, properly paid paternity leave means dads are far more likely to take time out to care for their children, and flexible working is the norm for all employees. In these countries, mothers report far higher levels
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‘But you don’t know that changes to legislation would mean women make different choices; they have free will, and the women I know who have left their career to look after their children are very happy with…
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Joeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
‘Let me give you some examples. In the UK, 54,000 women a year are pushed out of their jobs due to pregnancy or for taking maternity leave, and 77 per cent of working mums face discrimination – that’…
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Joeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
Thousands of mothers are being forced out of their jobs, and hundreds of thousands more face other types of injustice such as demotions, halted careers or an impossible workload.
Joeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
‘In the UK, parental-leave legislation favours mothers taking time out to care for children over fathers. In fact, thousands of working dads have no access to any paid paternity leave whatsoever. This means that, in nearly every family, the mother is the main carer,…
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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.