Working Dad has a piece up on a recent Pew poll that shows that only 1/5 of working moms say that full-time employment is their ideal. Of those with young children, 16% find full-time work ideal, down from 31% a decade ago.

We had a couple of polls on the boards last spring on this topic, one for working moms, one for at-home moms, and the results jive with the Pew poll, with 16% of working moms voicing a preference for full time work, while over half would like to work part time, and 23% would prefer to stay at home full time.

Of the at-home moms, slightly more would prefer to work part time over being completely at-home.

Some other interesting findings from the Pew poll:

• 72% of dads say full-time work is their ideal.
• Only 26% of dads rated their parenting performance a 9 or 10 out of 10, 11 percentage points lower than all moms polled.
• Only 10% of working moms gave themselves the highest marks as parents, compared with 28% of at-home moms.

For polling info on societal attitudes towards working moms, check out the rest of the Working Dad piece.

Posted by MommaSteph.