A Mother's Job: From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman’s Fight For Her Tragic Daughter

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Whether you prefer a job you can do at your desk, with your hands or out and about, there is an opportunity that is perfect for you. All you have to do is get out there and find it! On International Women’s Day it is important that this significant group of mothers are not left behind. Employers have a vital role to play in this by recognising the unique barriers single mothers face and supporting them in the workplace. Yet, while employers still view motherhood as an outside-of-work activity, women are not afforded the same latitude. In fact, they can be penalised.

If employers are willing to recognise these skills, listing motherhood among workers’ professional qualifications could position them well. Of course, a disproportionate amount of power still lies in the hands – and opinions – of recruiters and HR departments. YouTube sets this cookie to measure bandwidth, determining whether the user gets the new or old player interface. Yet the unemployment rate is higher for single mothers than other groups, and major barriers to enter, re-enter or progress in work remain. Gingerbread research shows many are trapped in low-paid, insecure work, or are working below their skill level. A Mother's Job is the story of how Jodey's mum Joy Dove, 67, took on the system - and won justice for her daughter. A former cleaner and shop-worker, she is intimidated by nothing and nobody.Do you wish you could get paid for staying home and taking care of your kids? Opening your own at home daycare is the next best thing! With the outrageous cost of childcare, there are many working parents seeking a trustworthy and budget-friendly alternative. became infected with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa in 2022, with the vast majority of infections due to mothers not receiving antiretroviral treatment, not being able to remain on treatment, or contracting HIV during pregnancy or breastfeeding. 2 AppNexus sets the anj cookie that contains data stating whether a cookie ID is synced with partners. No matter which religion or spiritual path, a mother has the job of guiding and nurturing her children spiritually, too. 10. Psychiatrist After her son was born, Brearley got another (better) job, but she couldn’t let go. “I thought: I can’t allow this to eat away at me every day; I’ve got to do something to change the situation.” She launched Pregnant Then Screwed in 2015, originally as a platform to tell women’s stories, but she soon discovered it was difficult to get women to speak, even anonymously; if they still had jobs, they were worried their employers would see it. Brearley also found that many women had been gagged with nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) in settling pregnancy discrimination claims.

Single mothers looking for work also talk positively about employers who are upfront and clear about options for flexibility in job adverts, saying they were much more likely to apply to organisations who were transparent about the flexibility on offer. What Brearley would love, she says with a smile when we speak over a video call (her two sons are being looked after by her partner in another room), “is to see every woman who’s signed an NDA to break it on the same day and say what really has been going on. But you can’t force people to do that.” Much of this, she says, is down to basic sexism. According to the British Social Attitudes survey, one in five people think women with children under school age should stay at home. In a 2006 collection of essays, Boris Johnson wrote that women had been “incentivised” into the workplace, as if they shouldn’t want to work, and that children of low-income working mothers were “more likely … to mug you”. There’s long been a push to recognise motherhood as a legitimate job that trains workers in legitimate skills, valuable to employers. And some voices are getting louder. One of the newest leaders is HeyMama, a US-based community for working mums, who’ve launched a campaign called Motherhood on the Resume. It’s quite literal, says Katya Libin, HeyMama’s co-founder and CEO – the organisation is advocating for mothers to update their titles on LinkedIn, or even add the position on a resume, like any other ‘recognised’ job in, say, sales or engineering. born in sub-Saharan Africa dies before age 5—almost 15 times the average in high income countries. 1This includes mothers who have worked in managerial roles moving into cleaning roles because those are the only jobs offering hours that allow them to flex work with their childcare needs. But what does that mean, exactly? Most of us have a vague notion about what being nurtured feels like, but here are a few specifics.