Question

How does parenthood differentially affect mothers’ careers compared to fathers’ careers? Use specific examples and terms to explain your answer.

Answer 1

Parenthood differentially affects mothers’ careers compared to fathers’ careers in the following ways:

• Sometimes after delivering the baby, mothers experience post patrum depression which affects their career negatively.
• Greater responsibilities of the family and child inspire the father to take his career to another level for providing the financial security as a parent and the bread earning responsibility. This encourages a positive growth hike in the father's career with a motivation.
• In the early infancy period the young child constantly needs a mother to be around. the mothers needs to be present for breastfeeding the child. This imposes certain restrictions on the mother to move distant for professional committments.
• Fertility has an emotional as well as the physical effect on mother far more greater than a father. Mother's body needs time to get back to its normal strength after the 9 months term of child bearing following the delivery of child.
• Professionally committed mothers with a strong career aspirations may settle for work from home option or more flexible work timings to balance between motherhood and the career even if they get a lower pay.
• Taking more leaves to care for the child has a reduced productivity in mother's career.