The Need for Mothers in Business - Building Gender Balanced Business

• Almost half of female professionals with degrees and other qualifications who move into part-time jobs after having a child end up in lower skilled jobs working with less qualified colleagues, according to research published in The Economic Journal by Oxford University and the University of East Anglia

• Many high-achieving women tend to have children in their thirties — the age when many companies identify candidates for top posts, and probably not coincidentally when the wage gap between the sexes really takes off

• Forcing highly skilled women onto a ‘mummy track’ wastes the financial investment –- both personal and state-provided — in educating and training women; wastes women’s experience in dealing with a company’s culture and clients; and wastes the tax and disposable income the women could bring to the troubled economies of today

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