Work child’s play for women with kids

WORKING mothers are often said to be stressed and distracted – juggling everything but not quite managing to make it work.

But a new study shows women with children are actually more productive than their childless colleagues.

Those with one child already should even consider having another, as that will make them super-achievers.

The study says the productivity of women does drop off 15 to 17 percent when they have young children. However, this changes when their children get older, leaving mothers more productive – and more so if they have more than one child.

In a paper, Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labour, the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis suggested in its research that a stronger commitment to work more than cancelled out any decrease in productivity caused by parenthood. – Daily Mail