Damning home working report finds fathers are progressing at the expense of mothers

"Born out of a realization that men are being promoted even as women are professionally regressing, the damning report highlights how it is mothers who are most likely to have lost or left their job since the onset of the pandemic. The project also found that those women who remain employed are more likely to work from home and shoulder a heavier burden of day-to-day tasks than their male colleagues."

"Stress is up across the board Work was the main source of stress among parents of both sexes, but it is mothers who bear the brunt of childcare and at-home schooling who feel it most, with 18% citing employment as their biggest stressor. In unsettled times, unsurprisingly mothers and fathers share concerns over job security, with 28% worried about having stalled in their careers during the lockdown."

Manhattan-based agency Berlin Cameron, together with Kantar and Forbes, teamed up with Luminary and data provider Action Button to examine pandemic-driven societal shifts and divergent impacts on parents' mental health. Work emerged as the main source of stress for parents, with mothers bearing the brunt of childcare and at-home schooling and 18% citing employment as their biggest stressor. Twenty-eight percent of parents worried about stalled careers during lockdown. Forty-one percent of mothers reported taking on more household responsibilities while 72% of fathers believed duties were shared equally. Forty-five percent of men returned to the office more than their partner, only 19% reported both partners remote full-time, 65% of working mothers took a mental health day versus 54% of fathers, and 70% of mothers refused to seek help.

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