Stay-at-home parents looking to return to the
workforce are about half as likely to receive callbacks for jobs than
unemployed parents, according to research by UNC’s Kate Weisshaar.
Employers
are more likely to view stay-at-home parents as “less reliable, less deserving
of a job, and … less committed,” Weisshaar writes. Such norms, which push
parents out of the workforce in the first place, can also set their careers
back over the long term.
