{"id":14964,"date":"2025-05-11T18:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T18:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=14964"},"modified":"2025-05-11T18:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T18:50:33","slug":"the-motherhood-penalty-mothers-earned-35-percent-less-than-fathers-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/?p=14964","title":{"rendered":"The motherhood penalty: Mothers earned 35 percent less than fathers in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"grid display-grid grid-cols-2 gap-x-8 \">\n<div class=\"grid-cell size-1of2--md col-span-2 md:col-span-1 pros\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.75 !important;\">Thomas, a 39-year-old mom of two, says she could be leading a finance team at a large company with several people reporting to her at this point in her career. However, she intentionally took a new job in April that she was overqualified for \u2014 with a pay cut \u2014 because it was fully remote, offered flexible hours and had more family-friendly policies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.75 !important;\">\u201cI need a family-friendly company far more than I need progression in my career because right now, my kids are important to me, and I never anticipated prioritizing them over my career,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-cell size-1of2--md col-span-2 md:col-span-1 cons\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1016252\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 90%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bankrate.com\/brp\/2024\/06\/25161946\/Central_Inset-photo_Motherhood-penalty_Katie-Thomas_1000x1000.png\" alt=\"Katie Thomas headshot\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bankrate.com\/brp\/2024\/06\/25161946\/Central_Inset-photo_Motherhood-penalty_Katie-Thomas_1000x1000.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.bankrate.com\/brp\/2024\/06\/25161946\/Central_Inset-photo_Motherhood-penalty_Katie-Thomas_1000x1000-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bankrate.com\/brp\/2024\/06\/25161946\/Central_Inset-photo_Motherhood-penalty_Katie-Thomas_1000x1000-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bankrate.com\/brp\/2024\/06\/25161946\/Central_Inset-photo_Motherhood-penalty_Katie-Thomas_1000x1000-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankrate.com\/banking\/savings\/motherhood-penalty-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas, a 39-year-old mom of two, says she could be leading a finance team at a large company with several people reporting to her at this point in her career. However, she intentionally took a new job in April that she was overqualified for \u2014 with a pay cut \u2014 because it was fully remote,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[1755,6152,6151,4840,1205,4483],"class_list":{"0":"post-14964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banking","8":"tag-earned","9":"tag-fathers","10":"tag-motherhood","11":"tag-mothers","12":"tag-penalty","13":"tag-percent"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finderica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}