Working Mothers Feel the Strain

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The increase in unemployment has created a parallel phenomenon one might call over-employment, as workers who remain at a company take up the slack for those who’ve been let go. Polling for CareerBuilder.com by Harris Interactive finds this burden falling heavily on working mothers.

Among women who are employed full-time and have kids under age 18, 30 percent said they’re working longer hours as a result of layoffs. Thirty-four percent feel “burned out because of added responsibility you have taken on as a result of company layoffs.”

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