Is your company too family-friendly?
The childfree are fighting back against family-friendly policies that wind up discriminating against those without offspring. This, according to a cover story in HR Magazine
And this is interesting: apparently men are more "bothered" by childlessness than women are, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.
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Here's another reason women may not mind not having kids:
Lastly, thanks to those of you who have stuck with this blog, even though my posts have been a lot less frequent. I've taken a full-time job and it doesn't leave much room for keeping up with blogs. But I will try to stay on top of it more. Cheers!
"Childless singles feel put upon, taken for granted and exploited — whether because of fewer benefits, less compensation, longer hours, mandatory overtime or less flexible schedules or leaves — by married and child-rearing co-workers,” Ms. Wells writes.[LINK]
And this is interesting: apparently men are more "bothered" by childlessness than women are, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Marriage and Family.
Koropeckyj-Cox speculated that some women may not be choosing motherhood because of the burden of how difficult the dual roles of mom and working women are. "Other studies have documented that men tend to experience pretty strong economic and social rewards from being a dad, whereas women experience more of the pressures and more of the demands of the immediate day-to-day reality of parenting and juggling work."How about men don't have to get pregnant, give birth, or breastfeed? Having kids seems much nicer if you have none of those responsibilities.
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Here's another reason women may not mind not having kids:
[LINK]GROWING numbers of childless women are becoming the dominant earner in their relationships as having children remains a serious earnings barrier.
New data from the 2006 census reveals the number of childless couples with a woman earning more than a man has leapt by 40 per cent over the past decade, from 174,910 in 1996 to 243,933 in 2006.
However the trend is reversed when women have children. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show the number of couples with children under the age of 15 where the woman was the key breadwinner plunged from 191,095 in 1996 to 176,376 in 2006.
Lastly, thanks to those of you who have stuck with this blog, even though my posts have been a lot less frequent. I've taken a full-time job and it doesn't leave much room for keeping up with blogs. But I will try to stay on top of it more. Cheers!
2 Comments:
Male workplace contacts are a bigger PITA about childfreedom, too, than are women. Especially in a country that's trying to pay educated women to drop foals, and hasn't figured out that pushing fathers to take on responsibility would be better for the sprogs in the long run.
I work for a early care and education nonprofit focusing on 0-5yr olds. One of the benefits provided by the workplace is 8hrs of child involvment time IF you have a child and/or close relative child. I have neither and was not able to use that 8hrs ever! (I'm also a military Reservist and get to use my military leave for ANYTHING I WANT TO!) I think some workplaces are going overboard on the family-friendly connotation. While I advocate for young children, I do think there's a semblance of sanity of making sure the rest of us are taken care of too. I hate being the married childfree worker who has to take up the slack for parents.
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