Charity sector ‘most popular’ with returning mothers
Howard Lake | 5 March 2006 | News
Recruitment service Women Like Us reports that women returning to work after having a baby are most likely to choose to work in the charity sector.
The not-for-profit agency, set up in June 2005, says that 44% of employers who have used it are from the voluntary sector, compared to 19 per cent from the public sector.
Emma Stewart, director of Women Like Us, attributes the voluntary sector’s popularity with returning mothers to the sector’s approach to flexible working. She told Third Sector magazine: “Charities as employers are more comfortable than most with offering flexible work, which puts them in a good position to benefit from this untapped talent pool of women returners.”
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Women Like Us serves central and north London. It has found recruiting from the school gate to be particularly effective.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.