Citations:mommy tax

English citations of mommy tax

• 2001 January 5, Karen Kornbluh, “The Mommy Tax”, in Washington Post‎^[1], →ISSN:

  Women face a real choice. They can satisfy themselves with calls for tougher anti-discrimination enforcement. They can believe the conservatives and accept that their status is their own fault. Or they can acknowledge the mommy tax and demand some of the policies that women in other industrialized countries take for granted. If women ask loudly enough, Washington just might be ready listen.

• 2003, Janet C. Gornick, Marcia K. Meyers, Families That Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment, Russell Sage Foundation, →ISBN, page 47:

  Although the mommy tax is highest for highly educated women, who can command high market wages, it exacerbates gender inequality in the labor market at all levels of income.

• 2009, Drucilla Barker, Susan F. Feiner, Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 46:

  The mommy tax is the income women don't earn because they've become mothers. Economists call this an “opportunity cost.”