Does Pregnancy Stop Career Growth?

Pulse

oi-Staff

Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 11:01

A majority of working women believe that raising a family harm their careers and interfere in climbing up the corporate ladder.

About two-third of the working women believe pregnancy would negatively impact their career. 75 per cent believe that raising a family while in a senior level role would be difficult.

Working mothers face a challenge to reach up to their full career potential. After having children, the career often plateaus. They cannot pay full attention to their work as at the back of their mind they keep worrying about their little ones. If the child is sick it is even more difficult to handle both professional and personal life together.

The need of the hour is to abolish fringe benefit tax on childcare and have tax deductibility for your childcare expenses. This would make childcare much more affordable for women who wanted to continue working after having babies.