The motherhood penalty: How childcare and paternity leave can reduce the gender pay gap
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Studies have shown the ‘motherhood penalty’ makes up 80% of the gender pay gap.
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Men spend just of third of the time women do on unpaid work, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2022.
Joeli Brearley, founder of the Pregnant Then Screwed campaign, is the author of The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career. Here she explains how COVID-19 impacted mothers, and how paternity leave and childcare could help to reduce the motherhood penalty.
When Joeli Brearley was four months’ pregnant, she was brushing her teeth one morning and missed a call from her company.
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