This year there is a noticeable shift
away from maternity leave policies and flexible work arrangements towards preparing women for leadership roles especially around business development.
Not exact matches
The parents I do know of this generation are struggling with daycare costs, poor
maternity / paternity
leaves, living
away from supports like family and friends for economic reasons.
Also, I returned to work when my daughter was one year old (Canadian
maternity leave) so I definitely had time
away from her.
This ambitious woman had her duties stripped
away from her one by one after her
maternity leave until there wasn't even a job title yet and she became unemployed.
Stepping
away from research for a few months for
maternity leave made me realize that if I wanted to continue in academia — which I did — I needed to get my work into the literature.
It's definitely my Achilles heel of office eats, and coming back to work after
maternity leave I've had to learn to walk
away from the bread basket all over again.
While only desiring to provide my family's updated AGI (following completion of taxes) as it was drastically different
from the previous year's (first child born and lost income due to
maternity leave and new job), this apparently trumped my original application to REPAYE and wiped it all
away.
At the time of writing I am
away from work on
maternity leave, but am looking forward to getting back to my patients in the near future!
Although most law firms offer some type
maternity leave, either paid or unpaid, lawyers who stay
away from their jobs for more than one year frequently sacrifice their job security.