support mothers
When you support mother and female carer led businesses you are helping women achieve financial equality, promoting female empowerment and directly helping to support those nurturing the next generation.
The COVID-19 crisis exacerbated gender inequalities, with disproportionate numbers of women and female care givers losing their jobs permanently or having to stop work temporarily due to commitments to their dependents.
Supporting mums and carers is not only morally and socially virtuous, but also economically beneficial. Don’t just take our word for it, check out some of the following statistics:
- 65 per cent of working mothers who had been furloughed cited a lack of childcare as the reason. Of those made redundant, 46 per cent said this played a role in losing their jobs.
- Studies show that mums reinvest up to 90% of their income back into their families and communities, compared to only 40% for men.
- Mothers of children 12 years old and younger lost nearly 2.2 million jobs between February and August, a 12% drop. In comparison, Fathers of small children saw a 4% drop of about 870,000 jobs.
- If female entrepreneurs received as much support as male entrepreneurs, the global economy would experience up to a $5 trillion boost.
- Around half (46%) of working carers had taken annual leave to fulfil caring responsibilities, and almost a quarter (24%) said they had to consider giving up their job because of it.
- mothers were 23% more likely than fathers to have lost their jobs temporarily or permanently during the crisis.
- 36% of carers had refused a job offer or promotion, or decided against applying for a job, because of their caring responsibilities.
Commitment to investing in future success
Your support for mother and carer owned businesses is a commitment to investing in the future success of our generation; overall contributing to a better society and economy and the realisation of gender equality.
Commitment to investing in the future success
Your support for mother and carer owned businesses is a commitment to investing in the future success of our generation; overall contributing to a better society and economy in order to achieve equality.
Credit
[1] https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/09/28/mothers-are-3-times-more-likely-than-fathers-to-have-lost-jobs-in-pandemic
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2019/08/08/new-research-finds-that-supporting-female-entrepreneurs-could-boost-global-economy-by-5-trillion/?sh=4aea19c067be
[3] https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/news/pandemic-has-caused-career-crisis-for-parents-and-carers
[4] https://ifs.org.uk/publications/14861
[5] https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/long-reads/articles/how-covid-19-shone-spotlight-working-carers#gref
