Mommy Track Research Paper

In the following paper I will be discussing if the “Mommy Track” (part-time work) does or doesn’t benefits women’s lives, as it is said to be. The porpoise of the “Mommy Track” is to allow women to maintain healthy balance between the professional work force and the family career. By allowing women who have recently had or adopted a child the opportunity to return to work or simply work part-time. One point of view, suggest that the “Mammy Track” benefits professional working mothers by making it easier to amalgamate their career and family. This is possible by allowing flexible hours to choose from and the opportunity to grow in the work force. Resulting, in less stress and a well balance between family and work. However, the other view claims that the “Mommy Track” can be a temporarily delay or even a dead end in mother’s career filed. In their study, which is focused on law students indicate that the “Mommy Track” lowers salaries and has less probability of promotion. …show more content…
It focusses on professional mothers with small children, and shows data collection. For example, it shows differences in pay rates, total income, as well as, time spent at work, child care, and chores between full and half time working mothers. This data helped show the benefits that the “Mommy Track” has to offer. However, although the IBM study seems straight forward It lacks the reality of working women. The study is focused on a more educated selection, who tend to be more experience with technology; resulting in higher salary. In addition, this data does not represent the majority of professional women who work for smaller companies. Over all, it leaves out women with lower education, and single mothers. At last, the data taken from the IBM study only supports that the “Mommy Track” improves a specific type of