Family values my ass
My dear friend whose wife is pregnant just mentioned that her employer, the state of Massachusetts, only offers two weeks for maternity leave.
Two weeks? Two fucking weeks?
Meanwhile, i n the UK, they just upped maternity leave by law to a year (if desired.) A year. And my friend gets TWO WEEKS?
I'm appalled and thoroughly baffled that this is even legal. Why aren't the "family values" politicians up in arms about this? Is it because they don't think the women should be working in the first place? And where are the women's rights activists? Shouldn't this be something on which change should be immediately forced?
Once again we're far behind the rest of the Western (and much of the Eastern) world.
*head desk*
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Two weeks? Two fucking weeks?
Meanwhile, i n the UK, they just upped maternity leave by law to a year (if desired.) A year. And my friend gets TWO WEEKS?
I'm appalled and thoroughly baffled that this is even legal. Why aren't the "family values" politicians up in arms about this? Is it because they don't think the women should be working in the first place? And where are the women's rights activists? Shouldn't this be something on which change should be immediately forced?
Once again we're far behind the rest of the Western (and much of the Eastern) world.
*head desk*
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