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The Pregnancy Penalty: new nationwide data on the employment impact of pregnancy
- herotears 7y agoSuch an important highlight on a real problem!
- eammae 7y agoThe pregnancy penalty - what a sad concept to now understand. And yet it truly does exist. After sharing the news of my engagement with my boss and telling him how great I'd timed my wedding in relation to the performance year and to still be promoted to manager, he immediately joked that if I didn't make manager I could always have a baby. I'm lucky too (even with such a joke) because my workplace does protect pregnancy leave and prides itself on providing paid family leave for both mom's and dad's, but some aren't so lucky as she said. Amazingly researched and well thought out article and it's so cool how her job directly correlated to her own experiences and she was able to develop the article by way of living it.
- sarahfaulkner 7y agoAs if promotion and baby were substitutes for each other...Thanks for sharing. Agreed - much needed research to put numbers to the discussion!
- lframsey 7y agoThank you for shedding light on this issue! Even with guaranteed paid maternity leave and working for a global corporate employer that prides itself on ‘supporting mothers’, I returned to the office 2 weeks early for fear of missing work that would lead to promotional opportunities. The undercurrent, particularly in a male dominated industry, is still heavily present that maternity leave delays career growth. Looking forward to hearing more of this type of discussion!
- dang 7y agoPlease don't do promotional upvoting and commenting on HN. The community considers that spamming, and we ban accounts and sites that do it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html