Maybe Millennials Won’t Know the Meaning of Mommytracking
Cross-posted at the Huffington Post:
Barack and Michelle Obama know it. Catherina Zeta Jones (who performed 8 months pregnant at the Oscars) and Michael Douglas know it. And of course, there’s polka dotted M.I.A, Sarah Palin and Todd, Christina Aguilera…and practically the entire cadre of celebrity moms. Just because a woman is a mother doesn’t mean she’s less ambitious for her career.
The 2009 National Study of the Changing Workforce (NSCW), which polls 3500 U.S workers across all professional levels, shows that “for the first time, young women want just as much to advance to jobs with more responsibility as young men. Moreover, being a mother does not significantly change young women’s career ambitions.”
Maybe millennials (those under 29) won’t know the meaning of mommytracking! The report, which has been asking the same questions of three decades of workers, finds that “Today, there is no difference between young women with and without children in their desire to move to jobs with more responsibility. Whereas 60% of women under 29 with children and 78% of women without children wanted jobs with more responsibility in 1992, today the percentages are 69% (with children) and 66% (without children).”
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