Why Moms Face a Pay Penalty — and What to Do About It
NerdWallet's Smart Money Podcast
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The Gender Pay Gap and the Motherhood Penalty
The pandemic has been especially hard on mother's employment. We saw like 20 million plus jobs just completely gone in two months time from February to April 2020. So we've lost all these women in low-paid jobs, and so that appeared to shrink the gap. It seems like both the gender pay gap problem and the motherhood penalty that sort of exacerbated are really complex.
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