On International Women’s Day, we partnered with Housing 21 to deliver a webinar focusing on the challenges faced by women at work after maternity, and steps that managers can take to successfully re-engage the company’s maternity returners. Written by Dr Emma Waltham | Maternity Returners Expert Housing 21 is a leading not-for-profit provider of retirement living and extra care properties. As part of its International Women’s Day 2022 programme of virtual events, Housing 21 w

In honour of this year’s International Women’s Day, themed #BreakTheBias, let’s look at how maternity bias is affecting women in the workplace, and what organisations are doing to help. Written by Dr Emma Waltham | Maternity Returners Expert Research shows that maternal bias is the strongest type of gender bias (1). We all have biases, which are rooted in our personal experiences and ideas we’ve developed, due to what we’ve been told or have seen. These create assumptions tha