I think it would be the mom because she gave birth to us. Younger working mothers are among the most likely to say that being a working parent makes it harder for them to get ahead in their career. One reason mothers are more likely than fathers to say it’s harder to get ahead in the workplace may be that women are much more likely than men to experience a variety of family-related career interruptions. About four-in-ten working mothers say that at some point in their working life, they had reduced their hours in order to care for a child or other family member, while just working fathers say they had done the same; almost as many working mothers say they had taken a significant amount of time off from work for one of these reasons, compared with about a quarter of working fathers. And mothers are more likely than fathers to say they quit their job at some point for family reasons.
