The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
Joeli Brearleyamazon.com
The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
We’re the generation of women who were given career-advice classes, not classes in home economics and mothering skills. Our ten-year plans were more likely to include buying a home, becoming a CEO and travelling through Europe, than popping a baby out. But like millions of women of our generation, we soon realised that those ten-year plans lacked s
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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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