Does WFH benefit working mothers?
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Does WFH benefit working mothers?

The Hindu  

Harrington, Emma and Matthew Kahn, “Has the Rise of Work-from-Home Reduced the Motherhood Penalty in the Labour Market?”, University of Virginia Working paper, October 2023 A significant number of working women leave the workforce after they become pregnant as they focus their efforts on raising a family. In “Has the Rise of Work-from-Home Reduced the Motherhood Penalty in the Labour Market?,” Emma Harrington and Matthew E. Kahn look into whether work-from-home arrangements, which make work more flexible for women could help reduce the motherhood penalty by allowing mothers to successfully juggle work and family. They found that in fields such as finance and marketing, which are unfriendly towards families but where a lot of work can be delivered from home, there was a relative rise in the employment of mothers compared to other women when there was a rise in WFH arrangements. To be precise, a 10% rise in WFH arrangements was found to cause a 0.78 percentage point rise in the employment of mothers in these fields when compared to other women, according to the researchers.

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