Working Mothers

This is my page where I say a very very special thank you to my mommy.  Nanna says she is a WORKING MOTHER which means she has to work as well as looking after me and my four brothers and sisters.

Nanna says I will understand one day that its not easy being a working Mom and even Moms who stay at home are really working mothers as well.

Working Mothers need greater flexibility, says survey

Children of full-time working mothers are more likely to perform badly at school, research suggests. And researchers say the government should adopt a more family-friendly employment policy with greater opportunities for part-time work, flexible hours and longer maternity leave. It might be better for policy makers to encourage part-time employment by one parent during a child's pre-school years Professor John Ermisch, Institute for Social and Economic Research Researchers followed the academic progress of pupils born in the 1970s and have found that low attainment was more likely in families where mothers returned to full-time work before children were 5.

According to a Cambridge University report published last year, “The shine has come off Supermum” and most people now believe that a mother who works harms family life - ergo, that a woman’s place is in the home. This conclusion is based on an analysis of three decades’ worth of social attitude surveys by Jacqueline Scott, a Cambridge professor of empirical sociology.

Back in the real world - the world that most working mothers inhabit - there’s nothing prodigious or heroic about juggling the office and childcare: it’s just what people do, whether they work in the biscuit factory or the High Court.

There are two points here: the first is that 75% of mothers work. They work because they have to. You can think that harms the family, or think it does the family good, but it's irrelevant. Most of us don’t have any choice: if we stopped working, our place wouldn’t be in the home but in the trailer, or in the cardboard box on the pavement, and our children wouldn’t have any clothes to wear or food to eat.