{"id":3375,"date":"2018-03-01T21:39:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T21:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2018-03-01T21:46:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T21:46:12","slug":"more-than-half-of-women-say-having-children-negatively-impacts-career-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/more-than-half-of-women-say-having-children-negatively-impacts-career-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Half of Women Say Having Children Hurts Career Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having children can be one of life&#8217;s greatest joys, though it often comes at a cost.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed,\u00a057% of women say\u00a0they believe that having kids holds people back in their careers, according to the latest reading of an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/all\/all-departments\/164-do-you-think-having-children-holds-people-back-in-their-careers\">\u00a0ongoing survey<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>\u00a0 More than 1,000 people across the tech industry participated in the study.<\/p>\n<p><b>Women feel this way more than men<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fifty-seven\u00a0percent of women\u00a0say they feel children stall careers,\u00a0compared to 51% of men.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/all\/all-departments\/164-do-you-think-having-children-holds-people-back-in-their-careers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3382 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/adh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/adh-300x34.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/adh.jpg 481w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 85vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Differing views by ethnicity<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Asians and Pacific Islanders had the highest rates of feeling that children negatively affect career growth (59%). The lowest rate was among African Americans, 47% of whom say that having kids\u00a0negatively impacts career growth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3381 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/glo.jpg\" alt=\"glo\" width=\"509\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/glo-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/glo.jpg 509w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 85vw, 509px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>People of childbearing age feel this way most<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fifty-eight percent of workers 26-35 say that having kids holds people back in their careers. That was the highest rate of all age groups. The rate declined from there, hitting a low among workers 46 to 50 (46%).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3383 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/well.jpg\" alt=\"well\" width=\"323\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/well-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/well.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 323px) 85vw, 323px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Entry-level workers\u00a0report lowest rates<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Forty-seven percent of entry-level workers say they feel having kids negatively impacts career growth. That was the lowest rate; workers with 6 to 10 years&#8217; experience have the highest, at 61%.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3384 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/gal.jpg\" alt=\"gal\" width=\"512\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/gal-300x70.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/gal.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The figures are fresh as of March 1.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Responses of workers aged 51+ are temporarily excluded due to low sample size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having children can be one of life&#8217;s greatest joys, though it often comes at a cost. Indeed,\u00a057% of women say\u00a0they believe that having kids holds people back in their careers, according to the latest reading of an\u00a0ongoing survey\u00a0by\u00a0Comparably\u00a0 More than 1,000 people across the tech industry participated in the study. Women feel this way more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/more-than-half-of-women-say-having-children-negatively-impacts-career-growth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[129],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5285,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/5285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}