UK MNer with at least one child: please take a survey for MNHQ - £100 to be won! NOW CLOSED

[AnnMumsnet]

Ahead of Workfest, our fab one-day event dedicated to women and work, we'd like to know your views on jobs after you become a parent.

Please take a few minutes to complete this survey - it's open to all UK MNers who have at least one child (of any age).

Everyone who completes the survey and adds their email address at the end will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £100 voucher for the store of their choice.

Here's the link again: www.surveymonkey.com/s/B33YQ7J

Thanks!
MNHQ

re last question - there's a barrier for active parents, not just mothers, but that means there's an incentive for one parent to go for a 'traditional' ft career, rather than both parents screwing up their earning potential (which MrNC and I have done).

I thought that the survey assumed that I was ambitious to start with - I am now unable to seek promotion due to going pt but I would never have pursued those promotions anyway. My ambition has ALWAYS been to go pt and have a work-life balance that entails working as little as possible in order to make enough money to get by. I have never been interested in working for its own sake - I work to live and that wou and be the case regardless of having children.

I don't personally want changes made to bring in loads more wrap around childcare,I don't want the ability to go full time and pursue promotions. I want those opportunities to be available to all parents, but I don't want the freedom to be accompanied by expectations that we will all take advantage of those opportunities. I want parenting to be valued and respected and for people not to be judged by how much money they earn. I want employers to stop expecting employees to give their life and soul to work, to sacrifice their free time, forgo lunch breaks, put in hours of unpaid overtime all in order to look 'committed' and 'professional'. I want it to be recognised that parents of both genders want time to spend with their children and for that to be viewed as just as worthwhile as climbing the corporate ladder.

Hmm, could q8 refer to "first maternity leave/return to work" rather than pregnancy? You aren't actually asking about the pregnancy bit, and as we know pregnancy doesn't necessarily result in ML.