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Taking 2,4,6 years off from making a career leads to lower pay and earning potential. Good to know. Sadly this is very hard to be countered even with affirmati
by venomsnake 10y ago
Taking 2,4,6 years off from making a career leads to lower pay and earning potential. Good to know.
Sadly this is very hard to be countered even with affirmative action, because a person taking a break (for whatever reason, health issues, a single guy on a two year sabbatical will be hit too, maternity leave) is objectively weaker hire than a person that has built name and contacts in the same period.
Edit: Clarified lower pay
- abalone 10y agoThe study doesn't say anything about taking time off.
- cperciva 10y agoNo, but it does say something about "women who have children", and there's plenty of evidence that maternity leave gets taken in much larger quantities than paternity leave.
- ps4fanboy 10y agoMaternity leave is also much larger than paternity leave in terms of benefits in western countries.
- lostlogin 10y agoThe article says pay is lower for women than men in the first year post PhD. It would seem safe to presume that the men and women were both working and neither group were at home with kids At the time point being measured.
- cperciva 10y agoI think venomsnake's point is that taking time away from a career for child-rearing has a long-term impact on earnings, not just that it affects the amount earned in the years spent on child-rearing.
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