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Maternity leave, here I come

The Equal Opportunities Commission recently found that one million pregnant women in the UK will face discrimination at work within the next five years, reports Reuters.

As we already know that 30,000 pregnant women lose their job every year, 200,000 (almost half of all pregnant women) face some sort of discrimination, including bullying, sacking and demoting. What’s worse is that seven out of ten of these women don’t even report it.

The EOC has called to the government to supply a written standard of maternity rights of pregnant women and their employers.

Crazy shit. What disturbs me is trying to imagine what bullying a pregnant woman entails.

Posted by Vanessa - June 30, 2005, at 04:59PM | in International , Sexism , Updates , Work

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[0+]  stephen said:

It entails, amongst other things, managers' and other employees' expressions of resentment when they are required to cover work during maternity leave - 'guilt tripping'.

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