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Mothers are twice as likely to ask for flexible working

2 mins read Workplace issues/your health
Research from Pregnant Then Screwed, in partnership with Women In Data, has uncovered that mothers are twice as likely to ask for flexible work after parental leave.

Pregnant Then Screwed surveyed 35,800 parents. Women In Data then extracted a nationally representative sample of 5,870 parents to create a ‘2024 State of the Nation’ report.

The research comes as the new flexible working law comes into force. This law will enable employees to request flexible working from their first day of employment instead of week 26.

It finds that mothers who are working full-time are 2.5 times more likely than full-time dads to request flexible working. Forty-one per cent of single mothers have asked for flexible working. For parents of children with a disability, mothers are twice as likely to ask for flexible working than fathers.

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