{"id":352749,"date":"2011-03-31T10:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T10:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/31\/job-gap-narrowing-for-mothers\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T10:30:57","slug":"job-gap-narrowing-for-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/31\/job-gap-narrowing-for-mothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Job gap &#8216;narrowing for mothers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"59.424444444444\">\n    \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>31 March 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>06:30 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The difference in employment levels between women with and without children has shrunk to less than one percentage point, official statistics show.<\/p>\n<p>Some 66.5% of mothers were in work in the final three months of 2010, the Office for National Statistics said.<\/p>\n<p>This compared with a 67.3% employment rate for women without a dependent child.<\/p>\n<p>The difference was 5.8 percentage points 15 years ago, but has now narrowed to 0.8 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>  <span>Changing patterns<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Key factors influencing the narrowing gap, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Women choosing to have children later in life<\/li>\n<li> Employment for women without children, often those aged 16 to 24, being hit by the recession<\/li>\n<li> An ageing population pushing more mothers into the key employment age bracket of 35 to 49<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ONS said that a growing percentage of mothers were choosing to work full-time, whereas the number of part-time workers has remained static.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, 23.1% of mothers worked full-time, compared with 29% at the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Some 12.7% of mothers only worked during school term-time, compared with 6.7% of women without children.<\/p>\n<p>TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: &#8220;The rising proportion of mothers in work over the last 15 years is a ringing endorsement of family-friendly working practices such as better parental leave and pay, and the right to request flexible working.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that government cuts could &#8220;turn the clock back&#8221;. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/business-12920161\" title=\"Job gap 'narrowing for mothers'\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Job gap &#8216;narrowing for mothers&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 31 March 2011 Last updated at 06:30 ET The difference in employment levels between women with and without children has shrunk to less than one percentage point, official statistics show. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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