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Last week, Harvard University published its results on how working mothers influence their children's behavior and success.
Specifically, the study finds that daughters of women who work on site are more likely to hold a job, achieve a supervisory role and receive higher pay than children whose mothers do not work outside of the house. The study also finds that sons are more likely to take care of family and do household chores when the mother does not work at home.
The data spanned two dozen countries and girls are 4.5 more likely to be employed when their mother does not work from home, which was expected.
What was not expected was the effect on supervisory positions for daughters in the study, said the lead author of the study, Kathleen McGinn.
Quartz reports that daughters of working mothers are 33 percent more likely to hold a supervisor position, compared to 25 percent of daughters with stay-at-home moms.
Daughters whose mothers work earned $5,200 more on average than those daughters whose mothers worked from home.
“When you go to work, you are helping your children understand that there are lots of opportunities for them,” McGinn says.
Read more on the study here.
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