Are you courageous enough to break the barriers that prevent you from getting back to a job after a career-break?
There has been a new trend about
working women taking career break and re-entry of these women. For women,
taking a career break generally means taking time off for maternity leave or
stepping back from the workplace to look after children. The high levels of
anxiety around this are unsurprising. Career breaks are a fantastic tool to
allow workers to take time out of the office for family, children, study,
travel or a whole host of other reasons, but it sometimes leads to something
adverse for many women. These talented returners, after re-entry, cannot find
meaningful and challenging full-time work.
The employers generally form the
view that women returners are not a homogeneous group and the length of their
career break appears to play a key role in the re-entry process; the longer the
break the greater the impact. Women who interrupt their careers experience
downward mobility in salary and status. Also, such career breaks counteract
career development due to the lack of support mechanisms, such as flexi-time
schemes, part-time work, and insufficient training.
An article from the journal ‘Metamorphosis’
explicates that once a woman has invested many years in a career, figuring out
how to take time out and then return to a role that’s comparable to the one she
left (or as comparable as you want it to be) requires more than confidence and
enthusiasm.
A career break creates a knowledge
gap, a deficit in confidence, and other opportunities. Greater the break, the
greater will be the impact. In today’s globally competitive market, knowledge
constantly makes itself obsolete with the result that today’s advanced
knowledge is tomorrow’s ignorance. Thus employers tend to believe that the skills
of such women have become obsolete and are required to be re-trained.
The article also talks about some
recent global studies which show that women continue to increase their share of
managerial positions, but the rate of progress is slow, uneven, and sometimes
discouraging as they face barriers created by attitudinal prejudices in the
workplace. The article further concludes on the note that Women, who are
currently on a career break and are thinking about their re-entry, need to be
motivated to be courageous enough to break the barriers that prevent them from
returning. Also, the corporate sensitivity is to be enhanced for such an issue
and people should become more understanding and receptive towards this trend.
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i loved this post. it does take a lot of courage and stamina to get back to work after a career break. most of the barriers are internal more than external
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