compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so. It is found that the … children of mothers affected by the Marriage Bar were about seven percentage points more likely to complete university …

Employment among mothers has been rising in recent decades, although mothers of young children often work fewer hours … former group displaying strong approval for part-time employment among mothers and fathers of very young children and the … than other women do. Parallel to this trend, approval of maternal employment has increased, albeit not evenly across groups …