Working Mothers and Career Advancement % with children under age 18 who say being a working mother/father makes it to advance in job or career
Women continue to bear a heavier burden when it comes to balancing work and family, despite progress in recent decades to bring about gender equality in the workplace. A 2013 Pew Research Center survey found that, among parents with at least some work experience, mothers with children under age 18 were about three times as likely as fathers to say that being a working parent made it harder for them to advance in their job or career (51% vs. 16%).
Working Mothers and Career  | Advancement  | % with children under age 18 who say being a working  | mother/father makes it to advance in job or career  | No  | Harder  | Easier  | difference  | Working  | 46  | 51  | mothers  | Working fathers  | 72  | 10  | 16  | Working fathers  | Notes: Based on adults who are working or have fever worked  | and have children younger than 18 (N= 528). Voluntary  | responses of Depends" and Don't know/Refused" not shown.  | Source: Pew Research Center survey Oct. 7-27, 2013, N=2 002  | PEW research CENTER 