Working Mothers Outperform Other Employees - Building Gender Balanced Business

• A survey of British business found that working mothers work harder than other groups of employees — and that businesses are aware, however unconsciously, of this advantage.

• And every company said it preferred to hire a working mother over a younger childless woman.

• In the UK, 7 in 10 mothers work.

• 61.4% of the 49 UK businesses surveyed for the mothers organization Mums In Control ranked mothers as better employment value than men or women without children, with 3 in 4 rating mothers as tops in organisational skills and almost 2 in 3 saying mothers were likely to remain longer with the company.

• Mums In Control said the companies attributed many of the advantages cited for working mothers as being the direct result of being mothers, especially as the need to complete tasks and be able to finish a workday (to get back to their children) concentrate them on their work.

• But this advantage is almost squandered, as even about 4 in 10 companies acknowledged that mothers who work for them considered themselves to be of “low value” in the workplace.

• And women are perceived by many companies as not just good value but also cheap — 1 in 8 companies actually admitted to employing mothers because they think mothers have lower salary expectations than other employees.

The PressWire report on Mums In Control’s survey