Blog: Overworked and Underrepresented

By Adrienne Kimmell, May 3, 2013

Have you heard the latest addition to the impossible to solve work-life-motherhood-sanity equation? Long work hours drive mothers out of high-achieving professions.

This is hardly surprising. But aside from the glaring implications for what this means for women’s empowerment and earning power, this recent research from an Indiana University sociology professor sparks a larger question. What does this mean for women’s representation in politics, a notoriously “overworked” field?

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