Sentences with phrase «women take time off from work»

Overwhelming anecdotal evidence shows that when women take time off from work to which they are entitled, they are viewed with additional suspicion and put their careers at risk.

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But for those women who are breastfeeding, incidents like these can force them to choose between giving up breastfeeding and taking time off from work.

A single mother of two children, working full time for the NHS and paying # 200 per week for child care: Taking into account saving made from the rise in income tax threshold and the extra cost of national insurance contributions this woman wuld be # 6 better off per year.

Austria is far ahead of the United States in providing options for both women and men to take time off from work for birth and child care.

Researchers found that people who said they had a pet in both 1996 and 2001 had the fewest doctor visits, followed by people who had acquired a pet by 2001; the group of people who did not have a pet at either time had the highest number of doctor visits.11 Similarly, a study of women in China found that those who were dog owners had fewer doctor visits, took fewer days off sick from work, and exercised more often than non-dog owners.12

In fact, one recent study found that 47 % of lawyers who are mothers have worked part - time, and another study found that 42 % of women lawyers take some time off from their careers.

For women who have taken time off from work to raise their families and / or take care of an ailing family member, getting back into the workforce can sometimes be a daunting task.