Forty percent say they bring home half or more of their family's incomes. Astonishingly large numbers of women who work part time do not have even the most basic benefits. Only 56 percent report that their jobs provide any paid vacations, compared with 83 percent of women who work full time. Only 48 percent of part-timers have paid sick leave. Only 49 percent have pensions and only 45 percent have health insurance of any kind in their current jobs.
Child care is an especially important concern for young mothers, single mothers and women of color.
Sixty-two percent of working mothers with children younger than six say that child care is very important to them. But only 13 percent of these mothers have jobs that provide child care. But only 11 percent have jobs that provide child care. Elder care is a growing concern. Forty-seven percent of working women call elder care very or somewhat important, but only 8 percent have it provided through their jobs.