{"id":2491,"date":"2016-03-18T16:14:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T16:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:58","slug":"women-who-become-mothers-before-33-earn-15-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/03\/18\/women-who-become-mothers-before-33-earn-15-less\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Women who become mothers before 33 earn 15% less\u2019&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">&#8230;than other UK women who do not become mothers <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuc.org.uk\/economic-issues\/equality-issues\/women-who-become-mothers-33-suffer-15-pay-penalty-says-tuc\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">according to a report released by the TUC.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> Statistics are based on\u00a0 IPPR\u00a0 research. They examine the wages of women and men in the 1970 Birth Cohort Study which covers 17,000 people.\u00a0 They compare the weekly earnings of those in full-time work at age 42 who had become parents with those who had not had children.\u00a0 They also compare the wages of mothers and childless women who had similar levels of education and in similar jobs.\u00a0 It was discovered many more mothers worked part time and felt they were treated unfavourably.\u00a0 This follows their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuc.org.uk\/equality-issues\/gender-equality\/pregnancy-discrimination\/pregnancy-test-ending-discrimination-work\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">2014 report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> which also found evidence of discrimination. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalityhumanrights.com\/publication\/pregnancy-and-maternity-related-discrimination-and-disadvantage-first-findings-surveys-employers-and-0\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Equality and Human Rights Commission<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> published a report in October 2015. Based on interviews with 3,034 employers and 3,254 mothers it also reveals that many mothers feel they were perceived and treated differently when returning to the workplace. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Other useful resources include the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maternityaction.org.uk\/policy-campaigns\/campaigns\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Maternity Alliance #mothersWork campaign<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> and the \u00a0earlier \u00a0UK <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/maternity-and-paternity-rights-and-women-returners-survey-200910-rr777\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">government maternity and women returners to work survey in 2009\/2010<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;than other UK women who do not become mothers according to a report released by the TUC. 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