Re:How to wear your baby to work
by babywearingmama on Friday November 06, 2020 @10:49PM
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I agree it would be different. My friends in Europe get leave and it works for them. It was funny to write this for a British journal because their perspective on caregiving is so different. Pumping is pretty much unheard of in Europe.
One reason I was going to work was because I love my research, but if I could have taken six months off, paid, without worrying about career progression, then I probably would have spent a whole lot more of that babywearing time reading novels or going for walks outside.
Re:How to wear your baby to work
by butwhydotjpg on Friday November 06, 2020 @03:11PM
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Probably not given the dynamics already at play. Paternity leave policies for young economics academics gave men an upper hand, because they were able to use their leave to continue working, but still benefit from the paused tenure clock. (I still support universal parental leave policies.)
https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/pa...
> No, you're lacking adequate protection for fresh parents, mothers and fathers alike.
Clearly. And universities are not pressured to extend those protections to postdocs because of the oversupply Ph.Ds.
No, you're lacking adequate protection for fresh parents, mothers and fathers alike.
At the moment career market forces have the upper hand - they can select for those who are willing to go back to the lab two weeks postpartum. If it were mandatory that all new parents had six months postpartum time off, the situation would be different.