Why does big business hate maternity leave?
August 18, 2010 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
A new survey suggests that motherhood and high-flying careers are still mutually exclusive.
A confidential agency for high salaried execs, headhunters believe that women who want to get the top jobs in business should steer well clear of motherhood. Some 53% of those questioned said that women who want a big business post should give up all thoughts of maternity leave – or what they prefer to call a “career break”.
So unless you can see yourself taking just a day or two out to give birth to, nurture and raise a child (do it in your lunch hour, perhaps?), then don’t even think of combining being a boardroom high-flyer with passing on your genes. Doing so will apparently be judged on a par with taking a year off to learn skydiving or spending the winter in Kyrgyzstan. You may not have equated bringing up the next generation of human beings with taking an optional breather, but it seems the headhunters of the business world do…
Read the original news at guardian