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Mothers are paid less, held to a higher standard than non-mothers and are recommended less for promotions.

For every dollar That a man makes, a woman makes $0.71 according to a recent study done by the National Partnership for Women and Children.

Who is effected my the motherhood penalty?

Even women who do not yet have children are affectedly the motherhood penalty. There are many single non- mothers that are still paid much less than men simply because they are women. lt reasons. One of these reasons is that many mothers have a spouse whose income they can rely on. Meaning that companies feel as if they do not need to be paid as much as a single income non-mother. ely The real reason there is a wage gap is because women have more responsibilities on top of their job than men do and women are perceived to put work second and their family first. For this reason companies believe that women are paid less than men.

One of the effects of the motherhood penalty is that single moms who are generally the breadwinners for their family are paid less but a single man who would also be the breadwinner is paid more. They both have the same responsibilities when outside of work and a family to take care of, yet there is still a wage gap.

Mothers were offered a 7.9% lower starting salary than non-mothers. That number is 8.6% lower than the recommended starting salary for fathers. Mothers are 6 times less likely than non-mothers to be recommended for hire.

One negative effect of the motherhood penalty is that it highly discourages women to have children if they already part of a workplace. When women announce that they are expecting that they will be taken off of current projects and not given very many projects in the future according to the source. Women are not taken as serious as men in the workplace. Women are also unfairly penalized in performance reviews. The wage gap is the biggest at the top of the income scale.