Women

NY Times - Research has shown that 15 years after graduating college, mothers earn 11 percent less than women without children — and a staggering 42 percent less than fathers. There’s a term for this: the motherhood penalty. Last year, Times Opinion asked readers to tell us about their paths to becoming mothers. Nearly 2,000 women of varying ages and from all corners of the country wrote in, but they weren’t all interested in describing their journeys to parenthood. Instead, many shared how having children had put them in a punishing financial bind. This week, Times Opinion published a video featuring interviews we conducted over the past several months with some of these women.