“Family-friendly Policies for Rural Working Mothers”

For working parents, family-friendly work policies can reduce work-family conflict and lead to less absenteeism and higher productivity. Utilizing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth from 2000 through 2006, the brief finds that working parents in rural America have less access to family-friendly work policies – including access to paid sick days, health insurance, dental insurance parental leave, flextime and job training – than their urban counterparts.
 

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