Motherhood Makes a Woman a Good Worker

Motherhood makes women better workers, as their skills sharpen. That is the conclusion drawn by the researchers from the United States.

A survey of 2,000 women and 500 employers, commissioned by Microsoft, showed that motherhood made women more professional and responsible workers. Raising a small child enhances the professional skills of women. Almost two-thirds of young mothers admitted that they were more capable of accomplishing several things at once.

Almost a half (46%) of the respondents felt that their managerial skills improved after giving birth to a baby, while 27% of the respondents became more organized. Employers seem to agree to these results, since 57% of them said that young mothers were better team players compared to women without children. 29% said that teamwork in their company had improved after the employees had become parents, and 35% said that the women had improved their skills of performing multiple tasks simultaneously.

According to the bosses, one in three women (34%) appreciated colleagues and clients more vividly after childbirth. The study also showed that technology played an important role in helping young mothers. More than a third of them (37%) use different high-tech products to work from home when they have no opportunity to go to the office. The development of social networks and new gadgets also helps these women.

New technologies allow a third of young mothers (29%) obtain as much as 60 extra minutes in their busy schedule, and 23% manage to get two hours. As a result, 25% of the mothers claim that they are twice more productive than their husbands or lovers.