10 Staggering Statistics About Working Moms

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Pew Research, in a recent research report, revealed that the not just the number of working moms is on rise but that mother are now the sole or primary income provider in a record 40% of households with children – that’s nearly four times the rate from 1960. Earlier this year, Washington Post aptly report this change in trend as a “sweeping change in traditional gender roles and family life over a few short decades.” Way To Go Working Mommies, Let ‘Er Rip!

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67% of mothers in the US are WORKING

MOMS.

The ratio of WORKING MOMS in the US has gone

up a whopping

800%since 1860.

SOUTH DAKOTA

leads the Top 10 States for Working

Mothers with

79.9% of MOMS working.

32%Of working moms think

their ideal life situation

involves FULL-TIME WORK.

Mothers are now the sole

INCOME PROVIDER in

40% of households w/ children.

37%Working Mothers

have a HIGHER INCOME

than their Husbands.

74% of full-time

working mothers have

CHILDREN 17 YEAR OLD OR

YOUNGER.

55% say they

struggle to balance their CAREER and

FAMILY.

34% of STAY-AT-HOME

MOTHERS are poor, compared to

12% of WORKING MOTHERS.

60%

of Americans say CHILDREN ARE

BETTER OFF WHEN A

PARENT STAYS HOME to focus on the family.