Without the optionBut the benefits of enhanced flexibility don’t apply to millions of women whose jobs require them to be on site, including retail, health-care and service workers.
Nearly four in 10 female workers in the U.S., or 38%, say it isn’t possible for them to do their job by working from home, according to a Wall Street Journal/SurveyMonkey poll conducted earlier this year, compared with 37% of men.Three years ago, in search of better work-life balance, Breanna Del Toro left a career as a funeral director and embalmer and is now a courtesy-center manager at a Schnucks grocery store in Peoria, Ill.