{"id":101,"date":"2020-06-01T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caribbeanjobs.com\/careeradvice\/study-reveals-working-mothers-are-happy"},"modified":"2020-09-02T08:05:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T08:05:31","slug":"study-reveals-working-mothers-are-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caribbeanjobs.com\/careeradvice\/study-reveals-working-mothers-are-happy","title":{"rendered":"Study reveals working mothers are Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Media Does &#8216;Poor Job&#8217; of Depicting Working Mothers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Results from a survey conducted by Executive Moms, <a style=\"color: #11bff3;\" title=\"www.executivemoms.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.executivemoms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.executivemoms.com<\/a>, show that contrary to popular belief, working mothers are glad to have careers and feel that working is beneficial to motherhood and overall family life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Major findings from the survey:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>97% of respondents AGREE that being a mother with a career can &#8220;help make me a better mother&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>70% of respondents work BOTH because &#8220;it is important to me EMOTIONALLY&#8221; and &#8220;it is important FINANCIALLY&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>82% of respondents feel that the GREATEST BENEFIT to being a professional as well as a mother is the FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION they make to the family.<\/li>\n<li>61% of respondents believe the media does a &#8220;POOR JOB&#8221; of depicting working mothers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The results from the survey show that working mothers feel very good about themselves,&#8221; says Marisa Thalberg, founder and President of Executive Moms. &#8220;Not only is it clear that these women derive a sense of personal esteem and value from having a career &#8211; they also believe that their career brings a value to their role as mothers as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This disputes the conventional notion that being a &#8220;working mother&#8221; inherently means a trade-off, especially on the &#8220;mother&#8221; end.<\/p>\n<p>Survey results indicate that contributing to working mothers&#8217; sense of personal contentment is a sense of satisfaction in the support they are getting from others:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only 8% wish they had a more accommodating spouse.<\/li>\n<li>Only 21% wish they had better childcare and\/or back-up childcare.<\/li>\n<li>Only 36% or respondents feel societal pressure or guilt that they should be &#8220;stay-at-home-Moms&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The most significant wish expressed by the respondents in the survey, and perhaps the study&#8217;s least surprising finding, is their desire for &#8220;more personal time&#8221; (66%).<\/p>\n<p>Abigail Hirschhorn, Chief Marketing Officer, DDB New York believes that these results mirror trends DDB has witnessed from its yearly Lifestyles study of thousands of women.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the results of the Executive Moms study in conjunction with DDB&#8217;s ongoing research, there is a clear level of satisfaction and confidence that seems to be a true defining trait of working mothers in this country &#8211; one that probably runs counter to many cultural assumptions about how working mothers feel about the lives they lead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DDB&#8217;s 35th annual Lifestyles study offers findings that lend support to the Executive Moms study.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some key findings there:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A greater percentage of working mothers (96%) describe themselves as &#8220;family-oriented&#8221; than the rest of the population (89%).<\/li>\n<li>Only 18% of working mothers believe that men are naturally better leaders than women (vs. 36% of rest of population).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This article may contain 3rd party information which CaribbeanJobs.com has approval to use<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Does &#8216;Poor Job&#8217; of Depicting Working Mothers. 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