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Female Career Progression & Maternity Leave: An Irish Exploration, Collette O'Connor, Angela Wright
Female Career Progression & Maternity Leave: An Irish Exploration, Collette O'Connor, Angela Wright
Dept. of Organisation & Professional Development Publications
The persistent existence of the 'gender pay gap' in organisations, and the lack of females at executive level position in Ireland due to motherhood is the context for this paper. In particular, this study seeks to investigate why women's careers are impacted by childbearing. The study investigates if there is a correlation between taking maternity leave, and women's career progression in the work place. The increasing length of maternity leave benefits and flexible work arrangements results in elongated absence of females from the workplace. This leads to stereotypical role emergence by both men and women. Women take on the main …