Konkona Sen Sharma reflects on the struggles of working moms in the industry, says "It’s called the fatherhood premium and the motherhood penalty"

Konkona Sen Sharma talks about struggles of working mother in the industry

Several actors struggle to navigate motherhood with their shoot schedules. Konkona Sen Sharma has now come forward to share her insights on work-life balance being a mother of a son.

During a recent interview with Firstpost, Konkona talked about motherhood and its drawbacks. While calling it a fatherhood premium and the motherhood penalty, she said, “I genuinely want to say that in today’s day and age, there is a certain motherhood penalty in any industry, which happens.”

The actress added, “It’s called the fatherhood premium and the motherhood penalty. Because what happens is that fathers, as they have children and they become more and more senior, they earn more and more.”

“But for women with every child, there is a financial setback because you’re not able to kind of participate in the way society expects you to or for that matter what the office work demands,” added Konkona.

Konkona further noted that women now are not ‘incentivised’ to have children at all because it is becoming more difficult to participate in the work life while also being a good mother at the same time.

She added, “So, I feel that this is something that eventually the governments will have to kind of change policies for working mothers. Otherwise, it’s not going to happen.”

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Konkona Sen Sharma shares a son, Haroon Shorey, with her ex-husband, Ranvir Shorey. The former couple tied the knot in 2010 and parted ways in 2015. They finalised their divorce in 2020 and are co-parenting their son.

On the work front, Konkona is gearing up for the release of the highly anticipated romance drama, Metro… In Dino. She will star alongside Sara Ali Khan, Aditya Roy Kapoor, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Pankaj Tripathi, Neena Gupta, among others, in pivotal roles.

Metro… In Dino is set to release in the theatres on July 4.