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title: "Full-Time Work Not Attractive to At-Home Moms"
description: "That's the percentage of at-home moms who say full-time work would be their ideal situation; by contrast, nearly half (48%) say not working at all outside the home is ideal situation for them."
date: "2007-07-24"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2007/07/24/full-time-work-not-attractive-to-at-home-moms/"
---

# Full-Time Work Not Attractive to At-Home Moms

Today just 16% of at-home mothers say their ideal situation would be to work full-time outside the home, down from the 24% who felt that way in 1997. Nearly half (48%) of all at-home moms now say that not working at all outside the home is the ideal situation for them, up from the 39% who felt that way in 1997 [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/536/working-women)