Young women put families before careers

Jul 26, 2018 by

by Geoff Dench, The Conservative Woman:

The Hera Trust, in a report What Women Want based on data from British Social Attitudes surveys, found that British women had moved away from being enthusiastic about careers and were – once again – giving priority to their families.

There had been a time, about 20 years earlier, when there had been some shift among women towards valuing careers more than family life but this soon petered out. Most politicians appear to think however that it has become mainstream and all of the major parties currently compete to help mothers return to work as soon as possible after birth.

Following that report, the Hera Trust inserted some questions of its own into the BSA survey for 2012 and a new report which confirms and intensifies the findings of What Women Want will be out shortly.

It shows that women are indeed increasingly likely to have paid jobs but mainly for family purposes and not to escape from family life. The new Hera questions help to illuminate what is going on, and the 2012 data show that most mothers value having a male main breadwinner when children are small.

In fact, the youngest cohort of mothers share more social attitudes with their grannies than with their (baby-boomer) mothers.

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(Article published in March 2014 – see introduction in link)

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