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Originally Posted by AGDee
It has always been my understanding that these comparisons are based on equal titles and years of experience. Whether you took off 6 years to be a mom and then got 10 years experience, you still have 10 years of experience, just like the man who didn't take those 10 years off.
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That 6 years off to be a mom can trump the 10 years of experience in certain careers, jobs, and job market conditions.
Then we get back to the crux of the issue, who is more likely to want to take the time off to be a parent if the family can financially sustain itself, the mother or the father? The mother.
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Originally Posted by AGDee
I do know SAHMs and clearly, they aren't counted in this because they have no salary and no title. But, I don't know of any job that lets someone take 6 months to a year leave of absence and get that same job back, which is what Coramoor implied happens regularly.
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Other than academia, there are probably a couple of fields where that happens.