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How Companies Can Support Moms in–and Returning to—the Workplace

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The maternal wall was increasingly obvious in the pandemic when “mothers of small children… lost work at three times the rate of fathers in the pandemic,” according to an analysis by Stateline , an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. It makes sense that these challenges only increase in relation to the number of children a mother has.”

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Two in five people are working extra hours as cost-of-living crisis bites

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One in six (17 percent) has made further ‘savings’ by cutting back (or cancelling) their personal insurance cover, such as income protection, life insurance, and medical or dental insurance, and one in seven (14 percent) has reduced their pension contributions – decisions which may prove to have costly consequences in the future.

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What Is Happiness and Why Is It Important?

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The results leave little doubt that subjective well-being can predict longevity,” Diener wrote in his meta-analysis of dozens of health and happiness studies, published in Applied Psychology. Many studies bear out that once basic needs (shelter, nutrition, security, adequate medical care, etc.) Oh, and they have more sex, too.

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