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title: "Working Moms: Good or Bad for Society?"
description: "That's the plurality of at-home moms who consider the increase in working mothers bad for society; some 34% of working moms agree."
date: "2007-08-30"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2007/08/30/working-moms-good-or-bad-for-society/"
---

# Working Moms: Good or Bad for Society?

A 44%-plurality of at-home moms considers the increase in working mothers bad for society; about half as many (22%) say the increase is good for society and the remainder take a neutral position (31%). By contrast, working moms are split almost evenly between positive (34%), negative (34%), and neutral (31%) views of how this trend is affecting society. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/536/working-women)