Effect of Maternal Employment on Nutritional Status of Children in Faisalabad City

For the overall personality development of children, receiving care and attention from their parents is crucial. Mothers play a crucial role in child's upbringing nutritional status. Employed women face many challenges society, including multitasking. They are obliged to balance job with household responsibilities childcare. This study analyzed impact mother’s employment status on children under five years district Faisalabad Punjab Province Pakistan. The respondents included this were between 15-49 mothers. A multi-stage probability sampling was used, where first step involved selection towns. In second step, 218 selected. Respondents each town selected proportion population town. well-structured questionnaire comprising both open close-ended questions used collect data. Children assessed using anthropometric measures see if they underweight, wasted, or stunted evaluate person's weight for height, age, height age. Results revealed that working mothers had healthy body (BMI within 5th percentile 85th percentile) compared who do not work, i.e., 43.1 27.5 percent, respectively. Almost one-fifth which lowest ratio non-working mothers, 37.6 percent. 6.4 percent overweight, higher than 2.8 without jobs. made up 29.4 population, jobless 17.4 Logistic regression analyze significant association found mother's wellbeing child. At 95 confidence interval, age statistically (p = 0.028) its Wald statistics 4.84 1 degree freedom. odds ratio, Exp (B), 0.935, coefficient B Mage (Mother Age) is-0.067which reduces likelihood children’s 6.5 Duration breastfeeding (DBF) 0.05) at 16.233 df. DBF 0.137, showing an increase children.