Well I, for one, believe this is totally accurate, not a self-serving rationalization hamster on PED's trying to, as the article says, "silence the critics". I mean who would be so crass as to criticize a woman nowadays, anyway??
As for the impact to society...welllll...what's good for women is good for society. So there.
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/a33197/girls-with-working-moms-do-better-in-life/
Working mothers may finally be able to relax and silence the critics. According to a new working paper out of Harvard Business School, daughters of women who work are more successful later in life than daughters of stay-at-home moms.
Researchers Kathleen McGinn, Elizabeth Long Lingo, and Mayra Ruiz examined data from approximately 50,000 people in 24 different countries over a 10-year period. And they found that women who grew up with moms who worked spend less time on housework, are more likely to be employed, and even hold supervisory positions. These women are also more likely to be financially successful.
In fact, in the United States, daughters of working mothers earned 23% more than those women who grew up with stay-at-home mothers, collecting an average annual income of $35,474 compared to $28,894.
But daughters weren't the only ones affected: Sons also seemed to benefit from having working mothers, but not in relation to their careers. These boys grow up to spend more time "caring for family members" than those with stay-at-home mothers.
"There is no single policy or practice that can eliminate gender gaps at work and at home. But being raised by a working mother appears to come very close to that," McGinn said in a press release "Women raised by a working mother do better in the workplace, and men raised by a working mother contribute more at home."
