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This Country Is Giving Working Mothers Back Their Money

For millions of working mothers around the world, having a baby can quietly chip away at their careers and paychecks in ways that fathers simply do not experience, and for a long time it seemed like there was no real solution in sight. Now, a powerful new study is giving the world a remarkable glimpse of what is actually possible when a country decides to truly invest in its mothers. Researchers spent years studying more than 100,000 Danish women and found something that shocked people: Denmark’s support programs erased 80 percent of the financial hit that women typically absorb after becoming mothers. Through a combination of subsidized child care available for babies as young as six months old, paid parental leave, and monthly child allowances, the Danish government essentially handed working moms back most of what motherhood had quietly cost them in lost earnings over the years.

On average, becoming a mother cost Danish women around 9,000 dollars in the year they gave birth, and that gap grew to roughly 120,000 dollars in lost income over the following 20 years compared to women without children. But thanks to government benefits kicking in right away, mothers received around 100,000 dollars back over that same period, shrinking the real financial gap to just about 20,000 dollars. The researchers are quick to point out that Denmark is not the average case but rather a powerful proof of concept, a real-world demonstration of what becomes possible when a government treats supporting parents as a genuine priority rather than an afterthought. For working mothers everywhere, this study is not just good news from across the ocean, it is a bold and genuinely hopeful blueprint for what the future could look like.

Source: https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/denmark-child-care-parental-leave

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