Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 5 · Licensed source edition
Work, Motherhood, and Nutrition: Investigating the Association of Maternal Employment on Child Nutritional Status in South Asia—A Systematic Review
Originally published 2025-03-18 · Nutrients
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/nu17061059 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Examines how work sector, low pay, childcare and access to benefits shape context-dependent nutrition associations, keeping maternal employment from being framed as inherently harmful.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Collaboration
What support around a mother’s job changes the conditions for a child’s wellbeing?
Examines how work sector, low pay, childcare and access to benefits shape context-dependent nutrition associations, keeping maternal employment from being framed as inherently harmful.
Study context
19 studies from five South Asian countries on maternal employment and child nutrition.
Age / stage: Working mothers and children up to twelve years.
Read with three questions
- How did employment sector and low pay alter the patterns reported?
- What childcare and benefit-access gaps were identified for informal workers?
- Why cannot associations between employment and nutrition be reduced to advice that mothers should stop working?
Keep the limits in view
Heterogeneous observational studies cannot isolate employment’s causal effect from poverty, sector and care conditions; the regional synthesis does not prescribe individual feeding or work decisions.
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Rupali Tushar Waghode; Surabhi Singh Yadav; Ravindra Ghooi; Shariza Abdul Razak; Kavitha Chandrasekhara Menon (2025). Work, Motherhood, and Nutrition: Investigating the Association of Maternal Employment on Child Nutritional Status in South Asia—A Systematic Review Nutrients. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17061059
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