{"id":5289,"date":"2018-10-02T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T14:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=5289"},"modified":"2019-01-16T23:37:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T23:37:20","slug":"its-not-just-women-42-of-men-say-having-children-holds-people-back-in-their-careers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/its-not-just-women-42-of-men-say-having-children-holds-people-back-in-their-careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: It’s Not Just Women — 42% of Men Say Having Children Holds People Back in Their Careers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having children can be one of life’s greatest joys, though it often comes at a cost.<\/p>\n

Indeed, 43% of people say\u00a0they believe that having kids holds people back in their careers, according to the latest reading of an\u00a0ongoing survey<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Comparably<\/a>\u00a0 More than 5,000 people, predominantly across the tech industry, participated in the study.<\/p>\n

Women\u00a0are only slightly more likely than men to feel this way<\/b><\/p>\n

In perhaps the most surprising finding, the results are mostly even between women and men: 44% of women\u00a0say they feel children stall careers,\u00a0compared to 42% of men.<\/p>\n

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Differing views by ethnicity<\/b><\/p>\n

Asians and Pacific Islanders had the highest rates of feeling that children negatively affect career growth (47%). The lowest rate was among African Americans, 40% of whom say that having kids\u00a0negatively impacts career growth.<\/p>\n

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People of childbearing age feel this way most<\/b><\/p>\n

Forty-seven\u00a0percent 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 51-55 (36%).<\/p>\n

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Entry-level workers\u00a0report lowest rates<\/b><\/p>\n

Forty-three 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’ experience have the highest, at 47%.<\/p>\n

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The figures are as of\u00a0Oct. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having children can be one of life’s greatest joys, though it often comes at a cost. Indeed, 43% of people 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 5,000 people, predominantly across the tech industry, participated in the study. Women\u00a0are only slightly … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65,6],"tags":[47,270,268,269,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289"}],"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=5289"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6407,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions\/6407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}