According to a recent study by Care.com – a company that connects clients with babysitters, petsitters and other caregivers – 78 percent of working mothers enjoy doing what they do. Why? Because they don’t let work get in the way of motherhood, and vice versa. Sixty-four percent of working moms feel that the demands of their jobs do not interfere with the ability to be a good parent. If anything, work enhances their parenting skills, they say – half of working mothers believe that working makes them good role models for their kids. And about 40 percent say that being employed makes them more creative parents. This works in reverse, too: The same number say that being a parent enhances their work. A third felt more motivated to work after becoming mothers, and 29 percent believe they are more productive now than they were before they had children.

With so many benefits to being both a parent and an employee, not much seems to stand between working mothers and success: 78 percent of working moms do not feel that they have been denied a promotion because of a perceived lack of commitment to work. In fact, 58 percent feel encouraged to move higher in the professional ranks.

One way companies can nurture the positive attitudes of their working moms is to help them with a tricky piece of the balancing act: child care. After all, 39 percent of the survey’s respondents had to miss work during the last year to take care of child care issues. But 73 percent of the survey respondents’ employers don’t offer any child care benefits at all. Only 18 percent offer flex-spending accounts, 6 percent have on-site child care, 5 percent offer emergency back-up care and 4 percent subsidize child care expenses.

Data comes from a Care.com online survey of 1000 employed women with children under the age of 18, living in the United States.