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Support for women\u00a0<\/span>returning to work<\/span><\/a> after a career break shouldn’t begin only when they start sending out resumes \u2013 it should begin before they even leave their jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n That was one of the key findings from a study by the Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations (SCWO) released on Friday (Sep 18), titled Women’s Workforce Re-entry: Challenges, Barriers & Opportunities.<\/p>\n The study looked at women\u2019s experiences returning to the workforce after a career break, including searching for a job, re-entering the workplace and remaining employed.<\/p>\n It is the first part of a three-year research-to-action programme by SCWO, which will focus on domestic violence in 2027 and caregiver well-being in 2028.<\/p>\n “Returning to work is not a single moment when a woman starts looking for a job again \u2013 the support actually must begin before she leaves the workforce and continue after she returns,” said SCWO\u2019s chief executive officer Yan Ping Koh.<\/p>\n “To do this, we need a mindset shift and review the way we look at caregiving in general.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to look beyond simply getting women back into jobs to whether suitable opportunities exist, whether workplaces are ready to support their return alongside their caregiving duties, and whether women can stay and progress once they return.”<\/p>\n The study, conducted by SCWO in collaboration with NTUC\u2019s Women and Family unit, drew on 20 in-person focus group discussions with 120 women in July, an online poll of 502 women living in Singapore who were aged 24 and above in August, and a review of return-to-work initiatives in Singapore and overseas.<\/p>\n The focus groups included younger women returning after maternity leave, mid-career women who had taken caregiving-related career breaks, women aged 50 to 65 who had been out of the workforce for longer periods, and women who had unsuccessfully attempted to return to employment. Both PMET and non-PMET workers were represented.<\/p>\n According to Koh, the findings are not nationally representative of all women in Singapore. The research instead sought to capture the experiences of women at different life stages and points in their return-to-work journey.<\/p>\n Among the women polled, 299 had previously taken or were currently on a career break \u2013 80 per cent of these said they wanted to return to work.<\/p>\n At the same time, nearly 70 per cent of all women polled believed taking a career break made finding suitable employment more difficult.<\/p>\n Women in the study described preparing themselves to return to work by updating their resumes, refreshing their skills and searching for jobs through multiple channels, but they did not always find roles that matched both their experience and their need for flexibility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Support for women\u00a0returning to work after a career break shouldn’t begin only when they start sending out resumes \u2013 it should begin before they even…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}THE STRUGGLE TO FIND SUITABLE WORK<\/h2>\n
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