Category: Parental Leave

Here's the second round-up of #WMW15 Posts:Coming home with a babyI have countless birth announcement emails from friends. They’re all cuddling their freshly born babies, sleek hair framing a tired but smiling face (is that MAKEUP??), painted nails, even classy jewelry.Me? If I wasn’t already flattened I’d have collapsed into a pile of jelly legged oh my GOD is that over, really? face haloed by a wild nest of hair that could substitute for Medusa’s wig. Hands clasping the new LB that had been too swollen to wear my rings for months. Elegant, not so much. But realistic. A Guide to Saving for Maternity Leave In my opinion as soon you decide to have children, (no matter how far into the future that day may seem), you should start setting…

When I found out I was pregnant in the spring 2011, one of the first things I did was investigate my maternity leave benefits. I pulled up my employee handbook on my computer and scrolled to the parental leave section.I was appalled by what I saw: I was entitled to 2 weeks of 100% paid leave. (The US, which requires 0 weeks of paid parental leave, has the absolute worst maternity leave of any developed country in the world.)That’s two weeks to recover from childbirth. Two weeks to bond with my new baby. Two weeks to master breastfeeding, pumping, and bottle feeding. Two weeks to get into some kind of sleep schedule that left me with enough brainpower to function at work.Determined to fight for more leave, I got to…

We've had some amazing stories come through for Women's Money Week 2015. Check out some of the great posts below: Canada vs U.S. Maternity Leave: Here’s Our Experience With Both at the Dough Report When Radhika and I moved from Toronto to San Francisco two and half years ago with our toddler, we knew it would be an eye-opening experience. We’d travelled to the Golden State many times, but you know what they say: to really get to know a place, you have to live there. And come to know it we have: both the good parts, which are almost too numerous to list (weather, food, wine, etc) and the bad, which include an outrageously high cost of living, a byzantine medical system, and, as we learned getting ready for the…

To get you excited about Women's Money Week 2015, and to show you just how timely and relevant this is, I've compiled some great recent articles below. Feel free to list others in the comments: Will Millennial Women Ever Get Paid Maternity Leave? Does Your Member Of Congress Offer Paid Maternity And Paternity Leave? Want to create more women leaders? Offer paternity leave The Economic Benefits of Paid Parental Leave Paternity Leave: The Rewards and the Remaining Stigma Paid Leave Encourages Female Employees to Stay State paternity leave law benefits working fathers Obama pushes paid sick/family leave for workers Obama to Announce New Family Leave Plan for Federal Employees What else have you read about maternity leave lately?