Lately I have been writing about the challenges that working mother have to face in order to strike a work life balance. They keep on coming across trade-offs between family and career. But recently I read that if a woman decides to delay her first pregnancy by one year, she can get a boost of 10% in her lifetime earnings.



If stated simply it means that if you plan your baby at 24 instead of 25, you are losing 10% of your earnings. The wage drop will come twice. One will be an instant drop while the other is going to come at the time of retirement. And these benefits keep on getting higher with every year of delayed childbirth atleast till you are 30, after that the reward is less.



The basic formula that goes behind big earnings is very simple:

1.She will earn higher wages...around 3% higher.

2.She will keep on earning that till her retirement.

And this will accumulate into big time savings...Agreed to all these experiments and hats off to the companies that are going to embrace them...it’s simply ridiculous. It is just another lure that a company can give to keep its employees intact. But just think about the cost that goes into it. I would like to make one thing clear that: late motherhood can bring big problems for mothers.



The after effects of this shift in child bearing age come in shape of hugely increased chance of infertility, Down’s syndrome and other abnormalities, miscarriage and maternal and infant mortality.

So it’s up to you what you choose...a higher pay check or a healthy baby!!