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I'm in the UK so maybe things are somewhat different here with regards maternity but all women I have worked with who have taken time off for this have been giv
by jiggy2011 14y ago
I'm in the UK so maybe things are somewhat different here with regards maternity but all women I have worked with who have taken time off for this have been given their job straight back once they are ready to return and are usually paid some % of their salary while they were off (I think the law mandates this).
- tptacek 14y agoI think that's a positive attribute of the UK system. But consider this: childbirth is a reason many women everywhere temporarily leave the workforce --- not for maternity leave, but literally surrendering their job, perhaps for a couple years. The research we're talking about today shows that after leaving the workforce for a couple years, they face an obstacle that makes it harder to find a new job, and thus more likely that they'll accept an inferior job.
- jiggy2011 14y agoThat's certainly true, it took my mother ~5 years to get back into her industry after having kids and even then it was lower in the org chart than she left at. I would still posit that reasonable people would be more sympathetic to a mother spending 2 years looking after children than a single guy playing a 2 year xbox marathon though.
- Flimm 14y agoAre you sure you don't have survivorship bias? How much effort have you made to seek out the ones that didn't come back and ask them why?
- jiggy2011 14y agoI can't recall any who didn't return, but it's a pretty small sample.