Forget all the hype: working mothers are happier! According to the BBC, a new study shows “Mothers are happier having a job.”
Luckily, blogger Brian Reid dug into this and read the study, and he summarizes it saying: “…Satisfaction with life is lowest for women who don’t do paid work; those who work full-time have the highest ratings. I’m not a social scientist, but all of this seems compelling and seems to stick a pin in the idea that working women are caught in a life of two-sphere drudgery. On the flip side, it’s not fair to label at-home parents miserable across the board — the differences in satisfaction scores were statistically significant but not enormous, and there is great danger in assuming that because something is true for a population that it is true for all individuals.” Read his take on this — it’s really valuable — he’s a stay at home Dad who blogs.
Natch, I’m thinking, YES! And this is true for working moms who live with chronic illness. Our book, Keep Working, Girlfriend!, makes this case.
Rosalind
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