You get what you pay for.
AlterNet is hosting a truly phenomenal article on working women's wages, a.k.a "paid maternity leave."
Pretty much every aspect of women's reproductive work is punished economically in the American workplace. And that affects all two-earner, nuclear households -- the ideal to which we're all supposed to aspire (the wage gap is estimated to cost working families $200 billion dollars per year).
But it doesn't need to be that way. We're so far behind the rest of the world in commonsense, pro-women and pro-family policies that we don't need to reinvent the wheel to figure out what works.
In a globally competitive environment, we need expanded parental leave, universal pre- and after-school programs, more flexible work hours and time off to take care of sick kids and elderly parents.
You go, boy.
Pretty much every aspect of women's reproductive work is punished economically in the American workplace. And that affects all two-earner, nuclear households -- the ideal to which we're all supposed to aspire (the wage gap is estimated to cost working families $200 billion dollars per year).
But it doesn't need to be that way. We're so far behind the rest of the world in commonsense, pro-women and pro-family policies that we don't need to reinvent the wheel to figure out what works.
In a globally competitive environment, we need expanded parental leave, universal pre- and after-school programs, more flexible work hours and time off to take care of sick kids and elderly parents.
You go, boy.