Most firms view working mothers positively: surveyBy Rachel Lin / Staff reporterWhile most working mothers felt that having children had a negative effect on their career, a vast majority of companies approved of their performance in the workplace, a survey by the Chinese-language magazine Parenting (親子天下) released on Tuesday showed. The poll surveyed the heads of human resources departments at 2,000 companies and more than 6,000 mothers who are either housewives, working moms or on parental leave. The poll found that 54 percent of mothers said that having children had held them back at work, while 87 percent of companies praised working moms as steady performers. A ”Tomistoma schlegelii,” also known as a false gharial, is pictured at the Taipei Zoo in a photograph released by the zoo yesterday ahead of Mother’s Day tomorrow. Meanwhile, 97 percent of employers are in favor of mothers taking parental leave, while nearly 60 percent of companies said that they would have trouble coping with staff shortages if parental leave lasted more than a year, it showed.

Source: Taipei Times May 08, 2020 15:56 UTC