Ep 18: Pregnancy and Breastfeeding in the Workplace

It’s never easy being a mom and having a full-time job. Balancing work and home is always a very challenging feat but is it really impossible to become successful at both? Recently, the Harvard Business Review published an article that talks about women, being an ideal worker or a perfect mom. The article was demeaning as it deems that women have to choose between motherhood and career if they want to excel and meet society’s high standards. Join us in this episode as we break that narrative that society continues to throw at us. We will also tackle the issue of pregnancy and breastfeeding in the workplace as well as debate on why the article written by Harvard is wrong in many ways.

In this Episode, We Talk About:

• Pregnancy and breastfeeding in the workplace
• Why there is nobody who’s an ideal worker and a perfect parent
• Filtering out people who aren’t good candidates for you to work for or work with
• How to advocate for yourself

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Resources:

• Ideal Worker of Perfect Mom? From Harvard Business Review