Can Kids Kill Your Career?
I admit, the headline caught me. "Are Children Career Killers ?" This was a study conducted by Washington University in St. Louis and the results? Women should wait till after 30 to have children if they want career growth, according to newswise.com. I'm not so sure I agree with that. Now, most women don't wait till their mid-40s like I did, but the thinking is that, for college graduates and even those without a college degree, researchers found lower lifetime incomes for women who gave birth for the first time at age 30 or younger. The hit was particularly stark for women without college degrees who had their first children before age 25. "The findings highlight the financial trade-offs women make when considering their fertility and career decisions,” the web site quotes Man Yee (Mallory) Leung, a postdoctoral research associate at Washington University School of Medicine. “Other studies have focused on the effect of children on women’s wages, ...