Mothers tend to work fewer hours and earn less than women without children.
It’s called the “motherhood penalty,” and while economists are well-aware of the phenomenon, they have struggled to understand why it exists.
University of Amsterdam professor Erik Plug explores the motherhood penalty in a paper that appears in this month’s issue of the American Economic Review.
(ed: No idea why they should struggle with perceiving the obvious.)
https://www.aeaweb.org/research/why-do-mothers-earn-less
