Working Mother

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the spirited conversation on The Motherhood Penalty so far.

I will be interviewing Stanford professor Shelley Correll, co-author of the study Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty? that sparked this debate. (For those of you who missed the discussion, Correll and her co-authors fournd that the pay gap between mothers and childless women is actually bigger than the pay gap between women and men.)

Several of you questioned how hiring managers knew the women who applied for jobs were moms in the first place. I emailed Correll and it turns out they listed “PTA officer” on fake resumes used in the study.

What other questions do you have about this research? Let me know, and I’ll include them in my interview when I speak to Correll.

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1. The Motherhood Penalty: Working Moms Face Pay Gap Vs. Childless Peers