Moms Hit Hardest By Employment Trends

 Though the media has focused on the plight of unemployed dads, it’s moms who are suffering the most in the current recession, a new study shows. 

The study, which looked at the outcomes for laid-off workers across the United States, found that married women with kids spent more time in-between jobs than married dads.

Making matters worse for the moms was the big pay cut they took once they finally found a job: On average moms lost $175 per week more than dads, according to the study, which was presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

Again, it doesn't help to just "create jobs" if you're going to perpetuate the inequalities that prevent success.

If married women are discriminated against for having kids, you can bet the bias against single mothers is dramatically worse.  Being a woman is a reason to be passed over for hiring, a reason to be charged more for insurance, a reason to be paid less because... well, I can't even make up a passable excuse for that.

Still think it's not important to let families plan pregnancies and avoid further discrimination?  Still think it's a good idea to vote unanimously to prevent fair pay for women workers?  It doesn't take a genius to figure the math on this word problem: if you slash assistance out of the budget and then take steps to cause more people to need assistance, and a train is going west at 60 mph, how long does it take to create a labor class that is desperate and dependent?