Bosses ‘avoid hiring mums’
RESEARCHERS have claimed employers shy away from hiring women with young children.
Napier University academics found that, although small and medium-sized companies actually prefer to hire women, the opposite is true when they have primary school-aged youngsters.
Professor Ronald McQuaid, of the Employment Research Institute, said: “For these employers, it is not gender that is the issue, but women having young children.
“There were many positive cases where employers had overcome some previous misperceptions and worries about the flexibility of parents with young children and found them to be reliable staff.”
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