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- Several stories in the news this week shine a light on mothers in the workforce.
- Women with kids under 5 are participating in the workforce at much higher rates than their peers.
- And childcare for two kids now costs more than rent in all 50 states.
For working mothers, it can sometimes feel like even when there's good news, there's also bad news.
Just this week, several stories drove home some of the things that parents and working women already have sensed.
First, some good news: Business Insider reported this week that women are the group of workers that are most successfully getting hired for high-paying jobs. My colleague Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza looked at data from a recruiting software firm with 50 million applications: