BPS: WORKING MUMS FEEL MORE GUILT THAN DADS

Internalised gender stereotypes can lead to working mums feeling higher guilt than working dads, suggests research. The Netherlands-based study also found that the more parents implicitly associate women with family, and men with work, the more guilt mothers experience, and the less guilt fathers experience when work interferes with family time. In the study, published in the British Psychological Society’s British Journal of Social Psychology,105 mothers with at least one child aged 13  years or younger completed a daily diary assessing how many hours they’d...

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