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Pregnancy is not a disease, but it does prevent you from working at least part of the time. Just saying - I don't know anything about that Italian story.

• davidw 13y ago
  Once the child is born, it can prevent you from working. That much is true, although there are ways to deal with that too given some money and drive (see: Marissa Mayer). But if you're an ordinary office worker, and aren't doing heavy labor, no, pregnancy is not generally an obstacle to doing work. My wife worked in a laboratory on her feet most of the time pretty much up until the end. She went for a 10 km walk a few days before our daughter was born.
  • facepalm 13y ago
    Ok then lets say there is a probability >> 0 of not being able to work all the time. Several acquaintances had to lie in bed for weeks. My wife is also currently having issues. If P(can't work) > 0 it means E(days can't work) is also > 0. Also stress for the mother is supposedly bad for the baby. Not sure how stress free a job as minister of the state can be expected to be.
  • claudius 13y ago
    > But if you're an ordinary office worker, and aren't doing heavy labor, no, pregnancy is not generally an obstacle to doing work. It’s been a while since I last saw a televised brawl in the Italian parliament, but I would not expect such a job to be remotely comparable to that of an ordinary office worker (even without the fighting…). Just think of e.g. flying, which is apparently to be avoided during pregnancy, yet bouncing back and forth between meetings all over Europe happens fairly often at least for German ministers.