{"id":750,"date":"2008-04-15T04:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2008-04-15T04:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T09:09:00","slug":"the-motherhood-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/04\/15\/the-motherhood-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Motherhood Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>The Guardian has a great piece up today by Polly Toynbee, “Girlification is Destroying All the Hope We Felt in 1968.” <\/a> By “girlification,” Toynbee means pink princessification. I love neologisms on a Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n

The article comes on the heels of an announcement from the UK’s Office for National Statistics<\/a> yesterday, which reported that UK women in their 40s earn 20% less per hour than their male counterparts. Explains Toynbee, “This is the motherhood penalty – and the more children a woman has, the wider the gap. Young women start out earning almost the same, deluded by beating boys at exams. Motherhood knocks most out of the running.”<\/p>\n

The piece goes on to ask, “so, what’s new?,” noting that 2008 is a year for reflection for her generation of women (aka second wave): “What happened in 1968? What really changed? The year of riots saw feminism ignite too, a year hazed in an illusory miasma that nothing would be the same again – but of course it was.”<\/p>\n

Depressing. But just in case you aren’t depressed enough, Toynbee reminds us too that only 24% of parliamentary seats in the EU are occupied by women, 20% in the UK; and that 90% of top EU company boards are men. Women dominate primary school teaching, men run universities. The UK has the largest pay gap.<\/p>\n

On the upside, Spain’s new cabinet is 50% female. GO SPAIN! And for more on the connection between pinkification and the mommy gap, read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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