What Do You Want to Know About the Motherhood Penalty?

Does she think that stereotype effect has any place in the disparity? The clinical stereotype effect; people underperforming on a task because they are told their particular catagory of person (i.e. female for math) is inherently less able or less calable of doing the job.

In other words does this become a self-fulling prophecy that mom's are expected to perform worse, are treated as if they are performing worse, and thus do in fact perform worse, which then justifies the poor treatment?

Did her study only examine hiring behaviors? Rather, did they note any disparity in merit increases or promotion opportunities earned by working mothers who were child-free when they were initially hired by an organization?

And did any of the fake mom resumes show consecutive employment, or were there large gaps that could be indicative of a stay-at-home-mom status?

How many resumes did they send out?

What companies did they send them to?

What state do the people who sent out the resume, live in?

Did they send the resumes out to different states in the U.S.? Or just one state? If more than one...which states did they send them to?

Yes an employer can conclude that "PTA member" shows that the woman is a mother.

But...can an employer conclude that a woman who does NOT include the words "PTA member" on her resume.....is not a mother?

If the employer can't assume she's not a mother, would an employer actually offer that woman more money...without knowing if she's a mother?

There are over 250,000,000 work-aged adults in the U.S. This number must be COMPARED to the number of resumes sent out...in order to accurately conclude that mothers are, or are not, discriminated against.

So again...How many resumes were sent out?