The great debate: Stay at home or working Mom

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Every ten seconds a baby is born in the United States, presenting today’s career-minded mommies with big choices about their career path: Stay at home? Go back to work? Something in between? Jennifer Owens is Editorial Director ofWorking Mother magazine & Director of the Working Mother Research Institute and she joined me to talk about What Moms Choose: The Working Mother Report, which offers a look at the issues facing today’s do-it-all moms. A survey of 3,700 mothers nationwide reveals surprising insights into the differences and similarities between moms who work outside the home and moms who stay at home, as well as the factors that influence their decisions.

As far as we’ve come as women, it’s stunning to learn that these are the concerns felt by working and stay at home moms:

Working mothers feel most judged about:
1.) How clean is my house
2.) Not taking care of myself
3.) The amount of time I spend with my children

Stay-at-home mothers feel most judged about:
1.) My contribution to family finances
2.) How clean my house is
3.) Not using my education