“Pregnancy discrimination” is a deceptive term; while most people would agree that discriminatory practices in recruitment are A Bad Thing, the pregnancy variety sounds like a discrete, time-limited phenomenon. Morally indefensible, yes; against the law, certainly; but no longer problematic once the baby has been born. So it’s worth reminding ourselves of the lifelong consequences that result from the intersection of motherhood with employment. Three-quarters of working mothers say they have experienced discrimination in the workplace. The “motherhood penalty” – the pay and seniority hit observable over a mother’s working lifetime – was described by the IFS in 2016 as "a gradual but continual rise in the wage gap … by the time the first child is aged 12, women’s hourly wages are a third below men’s.”
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