Stop stressing, working moms. Your child is just fine. Maybe even better than fine.

Daughters of working mothers grow up to be more successful in the workplace than their peers. They earn more and are more likely to be bosses, according to new findings from a Harvard Business School study.

While daughters see the biggest tangible financial gains, sons of working moms are more likely to grow up contributing to the childcare and household chores.
All over the world, children of working mothers are less likely to stick to traditional roles of male breadwinners and female homemakers.

According to new research by Harvard professor Kathleen McGinn, children under 14 who were exposed to mothers who worked -- either part-time or full-time -- for at least a year grow up to hold more egalitarian gender views as adults.

Goodbye, Mother's Guilt: Daughters of working mothers earn 23% more than daughters of stay-at-home moms in the U.S., according to research by McGinn and others.

Worldwide, adult women who grew up with a working mother are not only more likely to be employed, but they are also more likely to hold supervisory positions than women who grew up with stay-at-home moms, the working paper reveals.
McGinn and her colleagues studied 50,000 people from 24 countries. They used data from two International Social Survey Programme surveys -- one in 2002 and one in 2012 -- as well as local surveys and found very consistent results.
Working moms are role models, and their kids absorb various lessons from them. The findings held even after the researchers controlled for cultural discrepancies in different countries.

There was only one anomaly: career prospects of children who identified as conservative were unchanged regardless of whether or not they had a working mother.

Women in the workforce: The Harvard study comes at a time when American mothers have been dropping out of the work force -- either by choice or because they can't find a job.

The share of mothers who were unemployed in the U.S. rose from 23% in 1999 to 29% in 2012 in the U.S., according to a Pew study.
McGinn says the drop-off of working moms is most likely attributable to the recession. It's not be a sign of a reversion to traditional roles for moms and dads.

Sociologist Sarah Damaske of Pennsylvania State University questions whether the effects on children can be seen in just one year of a mother working outside the home.

In her interviews of children, she found that some would say something to the effect of, "My mom didn't really work, she just helped out,"even if the mother was working almost full-time.

"The desire to not challenge gender norms that dad can be a good breadwinner causes mom's work to be downplayed," Damaske says. "Knowing that the [mother's] job is meaningful to the family is important."

Striking a balance: Adult men who grew up with working mothers spent 7.5 hours more on childcare per week, the study found. They also spent longer doing households chores. And they are likelier to have wives who are employed as well.

By splitting household responsibilities in a more balanced way, it likely gives more time and space for women to pursue their careers.

"This research doesn't say that children of employed moms are happier or better people and it doesn't say employed moms are better," McGinn told CNNMoney. "What it says is daughters are more likely to be employed and hold supervisory and sons spend more time in the home."

Maternal instincts might make it hard for moms to leave their kids and go to work, but the research suggests that might be equally as good, if not better, for them.

"It's hard to leave your kids for college too but that doesn't mean they shouldn't go; it doesn't mean that its not good for them," says McGinn.

This article could be taken apart like a cheap watch.

How about the ending? They compare dropping your 3 year old off for daycare, or dropping your 5 year old off for kindergarten (whcih lasts over 1/2 of the child's WAKING DAY) with "letting go" of your 18 year old as he leaves home for college.

So if you can let go of your 18 year old for college, there should be no problem letting go of your 3 year old to be raised by daycare/public school.

To use a modern expression: Wait, what?

A majority of American working women are neurotic hens. :whistleblower:

This article, from the Liberal Media, does not surprise me. This is our challenge, right? To go completely against the modern culture and be something different, something truly more beautiful. One thing our choice to homeschool has provided me with is the opportunity to show my daughters how important my job is at home... how important my vocation to my husband and to my children is, and how I am glorifying God with every dish I wash, every towel I fold, and every spelling test I grade. We are conservative, practicing Roman Catholics, homeschooling parents with a a "large" family... yes, "freaks" in the eyes of the modern culture... but I'd prefer to be a "freak" than to lose my soul fitting in. I love that my daughters embrace the unique gifts God has given them as part of the female human race, and God willing, they will have a strong foundation built on truth and will have strength and courage they need to face the opposition to these unique rolls.