- Friday, 10 July 2009Women with children earn 22 per cent less than their male colleagues, research from the Fawcett Society suggests.
The gap could result in a gender imbalance in the number of people seeking professional debt solutions such as
individual voluntary agreements, with mothers at particular risk.
The Fawcett Society said that whilst men and women are equally employable before childbirth, this is not the case afterwards.
It said: "Before becoming parents, men and women are equally likely to be employed, but childbirth marks the start of a great divide, which continues even after children have left home and does lasting damage to women's careers," according to the Guardian.
For every year mothers fail to return to work, their future wages will reduce by five per cent, the report states.
It is also suggested that approximately 30,000 women a year lose their jobs as a result of pregnancy.
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