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...Almost 12 years ago, before I went on maternity leave, a friend loaned me Rachel Cusk’s 2001 book A Life’s Work, a visceral account of the early months of new motherhood....
...At least there is an extraordinary range of ways to manage motherhood....
...This is something I wish I knew when I went on maternity leave twice is if you maintain your pension contributions, even if your pay falls, and even if you have an extended maternity leave, your employer...
...Janine is about to go on maternity leave with her second child and she has strong views about the enduring stigma around pregnancy in the workplace and mothers returning from maternity leave....
...Office Therapy The problem: I suffered burnout after returning from maternity leave into a “greedy job”. I was put on secondment into a non-client-facing role....
...speaks to Janine Chamberlin, UK country manager at the social platform LinkedIn, and to Sarah O’Connor, the FT’s employment columnist, about the enduring workplace stigma around pregnancy and return from maternity...
...Post-partum care, maternity pay, the UK’s housing crisis, parental leave and how inhospitable public spaces are for infants are among topics Frizzell takes on, using eye-popping statistics to back up her...
...“Maternity is not for sale,” Meloni said at a conference on Italy’s demographic crisis in May. “Wombs cannot be rented out.”...
...“Maternity has been largely devalued,” she says. “If I say, ‘I am a mother’ I have no social reward. If I say, ‘I am a career woman,’ it’s different....
...Would it end the “motherhood penalty” on women’s salaries and career progression? What would the impact of having older mothers (and fathers) be on children?...
...The other will eventually have a daughter, only to discover that maternity is not as she expected....
...With a few happy exceptions, maternity is a terrible deal, economically speaking, for working women....
...Her paintings evoke conflicted hopes, for motherhood — close-ups of a chubby baby breastfeeding, a maternal hand on a scraggy infant — versus independence....
...Her experience with motherhood — from winning the 2017 Australian Open in the second month of pregnancy, to nearly dying of complications from her caesarean section, to calling out the fact that maternity...
...Maternity care before, during and after pregnancy can lag behind other parts of healthcare provision. Most, but not all, of the remaining gender pay gap is actually a “motherhood gap”....
...Now the venue is a smart maternity ward, and the waif is Ana (Milena Smit), a pale, scared teenager from a well-to-do family. Janis is kind to her. Neither woman has a partner....
...Emilie Bellet Yeah, women to women, and that’s called the motherhood penalty....
...The CCL has recorded 27,000 war crimes by Russian troops since 2022, from the shelling of schools and maternity hospitals to torture and executions....
...Tobi Asare is the founder of My Bump Pay, an online platform she set up during her first maternity leave to help women overcome the challenges they face managing their careers and motherhood....
...Then in 2016 I became a mother and decided to spend my year’s maternity leave in Australia, where my husband worked....
...Chantal Joffe: Story at Victoria Miro presents striking, empathetic new paintings around ageing and motherhood by the artist most imaginatively indebted to Neel....
...“The motherhood penalty is a very real thing,” says Felicia Willow, interim chief executive of gender-equality charity The Fawcett Society....
...Afterwards, Gris stops in during maternity leave to chat about how literature has helped her understand motherhood. We also pull apart the themes of this season....
...Maternity leave is often identified as a key moment when the gender pension gap begins to widen....
...The spokesman added that the comments made by some managers about motherhood “were archaic and have no place anywhere in UBS culture”....
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