Jennifer O'Connell

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2,353 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5d ago

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The Women's Podcast · Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

Because we know, and there's no data on this, you know, I like my data, but there's no data on what happens to women's earnings after marriage.

But there is enough that you can piece together.

You know, we know that like globally, women's earnings trajectory dips massively after they have children.

And we know that nearly in this country, nearly 30% of women only work part time compared to 13% of men.

And you can say that's choice and that's because they want to be around for their children and all of that is very laudable.

But it doesn't leave them in a strong financial position as independent, autonomous women.

And I think that's something that we don't talk about enough.

We also don't talk about the fact that while attitudes to the division of the domestic responsibility have changed and men in surveys will say that they are very willing to do their share and they will talk about it and there are much more role models around fathers taking a much more hands-on part and all of that is brilliant.

But the reality, as we've talked about countless times,

doesn't live up to that and survey after survey shows that women even women even high earning women I think we spoke about this just a few weeks ago even women with really high incomes still do more of the childcare more of the kind of the mental load more of the cooking more of the cleaning and more of everything

And that does prevent women progressing at work because there are only so many hours in the week and there are only so many hours in the day.

So we know that marriage isn't great for women's financial independence.

It might work for them as long as they remain part of a unit and as long as they don't mind their finances being bound up with somebody else's and not having that little bit of control.

But separation and divorce is much worse for women.

So there was an ESRI study done in 2024.

It's really interesting.

And it found that becoming a lone parent more than doubles the risk of economic vulnerability for someone who is previously married.

So if you were married and you become a lone parent, and typically that's the woman who ends up as the primary carer, immediately your risk of facing economic vulnerability is 2.6 times greater.

I know, I was.

I did kind of come around to going like, what am I actually saying?

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