"Where Commute Times Are High, Women Drop Out of the Workforce "

Workforce research 

"Where Commute Times Are High, Women Drop Out of the Workforce "

Research Fact: 

A 1-minute increase in a city’s average commute time is associated with a 0.3-percentage-point decline in the labor-force participation of high-school-educated WOMEN. 

No Level Playing Field, traffic jammed metros. 

 Moreover, metropolitan areas that experienced larger increases in average commuting times between 1980 and 2000 experienced SLOWER growth of labor force participation by MARRIED WOMEN .

Conclusions : 
 The findings suggest that married women, particularly those with young children, are very sensitive to commuting times when making labor-force participation decisions, the researchers say.

Courtesy :an analysis of U.S. Census data by Dan A. Black of the University of Chicago and two colleagues : HBR . 

Question for discussion : 
What is the message for the employers ? What  should they do , to retain talented female managers who are married and have children ?