The findings come from the Modern Families Index 2019, a joint annual report from the charity Working Families and Bright Horizons, which also finds that while nearly 9 in 10 parents want to work flexibly, for more than a third of parents surveyed, flexible working isn’t available to them. This is despite all employees having the statutory right to request flexible working.
It reveals that parents who work part-time, most of whom are women, have just a 21 per cent chance of being promoted in the next three years, compared to 45 per cent for their full-time counterparts. (Of the part-time respondents to the Index 92 per cent were mothers and 8 per cent were fathers.)
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