Mothers’ pay lags far behind men

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Women who return to work after having a baby fall even further behind men in earning power, a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said.

The gap between hourly earnings of the two sexes becomes steadily wider after women become mothers, the IFS says.

Over the subsequent 12 years, women’s hourly pay rate falls 33% behind men’s.  More