I'm disgusted

[andrewducker]

If you are a woman, know one, or are related to one then you'll almost certainly be as sickened as I am by this article on discrimination against pregnant mothers.  But not terribly surprised by most of it.  The bit that gets to me is that an advisor to the government is saying it, and nobody is speaking out to contradict him...

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[ratmist.livejournal.com]

How I love google scholar... <3 <3 <3

Depending on the access you can get through scholar.google.com (I'm using Edinburgh Uni's proxy service so I get access to most of the e-journals), you can do all kinds of research on your questions. Sometimes you may only get access to the abstracts though, which is better than nothing I suppose.

There is a lot of information kicking around about the effects of pregnancy in the workplace, almost all of it revolving around the perceptions made about pregnant employees. Very little of it seems to correspond to what actually occurs with pregnant employees. This may be because pregnancies vary from person to person (and a woman who had an 'easy' pregnancy may find herself with a difficult one at another point in time ), so the data is difficult to assess.

Also, I wonder about whether women are willing to be honest about how pregnancy affects their ability to do their jobs. Maybe even just admitting, in a small way, that it could make things harder, is just not allowed anymore. We're taught that we can have it all - a career and a family - so we should just suck up the pain and get on with it, right? Makes me wonder.