Maternity in companies and its challenges

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What should be considered an incredible moment in the lives of women who want to have it, can still be considered taboo in society.

Maternity in companies and how HR and People leaders and managers deal with it is a controversial subject depending on the company you visit or work at.

In fact, being a mother and balancing work is not an easy task .

Surely you, if you are not already a mother and know accounting directors email address all these difficulties, know someone who is, a friend, cousin, wife...

There are many challenges to be faced. But there are also ways to get around them. That's what we're going to talk about in this content.

Research is not promising
It still seems cliché to address such a subject in the 21st century, but, in fact, the proportion of women who lose their jobs after having children is still real and proven by research.

In general, women get pregnant, give birth, remain employed during the maternity leave period and, when it ends, are fired.

According to a study on maternity leave , part of the Think Tank Research, from the Getulio Vargas Foundation, after two years, almost half of the women who take maternity leave are out of the job market , a pattern that repeats itself 47 months after the leave.

It has been proven that most people leaving the job market are without just cause and at the initiative of the employing company.

The research also indicates that 120 days of maternity leave is not enough to keep mothers in the job market and that the mother's education also counts a lot during these times: workers with a higher level of education saw a 35% drop in employment in the 12 months after starting the leave, while the drop was 51% for women with a lower level of education.

Inequality can also be seen when talking about gender .

According to the IBGE , when they do not yet have children, 7 out of 10 men of working age are in the job market, compared to less than half of women in the same situation, a difference of 21 percentage points.

When a baby is born, this inequality more than doubles: it rises to almost 50 percentage points. The research considered only married people and directly analyzed couples post-pandemic.

What does the law say?
Despite all these disparities, by law, maternity leave is guaranteed for 120 days . In other words, a woman can be temporarily absent from work for this period with full coverage of her salary.