January 4, 2010
Women in the workplace
Says The Economist:
Motherhood, not sexism, is the issue: in America, childless women earn almost as much as men, but mothers earn significantly less. And those mothers’ relative poverty also disadvantages their children.
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I wonder if it’s not so much motherhood but parenthood that is affecting earnings. Men are taking paternity leave, requesting flexible schedules and generally prioritizing their lives in a much different manner than we saw just 20 years ago, leading to subtle and not-so-subtle changes in workplace dynamics. I think the people who get the raises and bonuses are the ones who are married to their jobs, regardless of sex. I suppose that’s progress, of a sort–and it points out just how unfortunately business-driven our society remains.
If only those children had had the foresight to be born to higher-earning, childless women. Tsk.