Top Tips For Working Moms With a Family

Top tips for men juggling a successful career and fatherhood hilariously nails how sexist the advice given to working women is

If it’s an early morning it is going to be tough trying to juggle that 40-hour work week with something that needs feeding. This is a tough call which is why it is best done while lying on the sofa in your pyjamas before your baby wakes up. However, there is a way to do this so that you can get back to your family without feeling guilty about leaving work for too long.

A set of The Seven Steps to Thrive at 8.30am seems like an easy call but it is more complicated than it sounds. What you see is three pages of form filling which, once completed, will encourage a human being to work longer hours without harming their quality of life.

One helpful tip is a ‘health benefit chart’, created to ‘promote health’ and fills in all the different benefits that working mothers are forced to take, such as breast feeding. While these sorts of health benefits are valid, it does not make them universal. For example, a lot of these benefits are completely different to ones that work women can claim if they are male. It is only useful if a company has a male-to-female ratio that does not leave much opportunity for taking these benefits in the first place.

You will notice that there is a ‘health benefit chart’ which was created to ‘promote health’. An eye roll can be avoided if you have read this far. Image Source: Getty

Another helpful tip is to find what type of business you are in and therefore you can explore some of the tax breaks. One of the most common ones is maternity leave because companies can deduct it from the tax they have to pay you. As a result you can reallocate some of this money in your pocket to other things rather than paying taxes to the government. One of the strange details is that this benefit is normally only available to big companies who have 200 or more employees. The thing that comes up in this guide is that this can’t apply to you if you are starting a business because you are not earning enough.

There are two things to look for here. First, big companies are traditionally open to hiring mothers, meaning that you would get more money even if you were able to prove that you did not qualify for the maternity benefits. Secondly, because you cannot qualify for maternity benefits, you are allowed to reinvest money back into your company at the rate you would if you had been a man. And that is no joke, the only reason that a mother can be paid maternity leave is because she is a working woman. Because it is only applicable to women, any company that could afford to give you maternity leave would automatically apply to you at the beginning of the pregnancy. If your company is already set up to pay you maternity leave, you have nothing to worry about. You need to just apply for more employee benefits with the same company.

Being a working mother can be really hard as there are no guarantees that you will be able to make extra money.

What is a mother to do? Don’t worry, a part-time job will help you manage it all. A bigger part-time job would be even better. Women have a tendency to take up more hours when it comes to starting a new business, this can be a huge relief because it forces you to find the right people to work with. As a result, finding the right partners may take longer than if you were working for yourself. However, a part-time job is usually much more flexible as it allows you to work from home. This is perfect if you have one or two employees or if you find yourself having problems with your company’s culture.

Working mothers have to contend with a lot of problems. This includes an increased guilt, a lack of face time, and a scary amount of responsibility. Additionally, as a result of the fact that women are still caring for their children while still making a good living, they don’t get to perform that important physical activity that helps with maternal health. The figure for child care costs in the US is absurdly high and each person still on a family’s budget is looking at some serious sacrifices. That is why it is necessary to manage your money wisely. This includes many of the tips in this guide and the formula of saving after taxes and spending after leaving work in the bank.