The Role of Maternity in the Workplace
Public discouragement of women breastfeeding in their workplace and workplace breastfeeding support engenders implicit discouragement about the importance of maternal decisions in personal life. This article is an attempt to help clarify the value and rights of breastfeeding in the workplace in the social context of workplace traditions and cognitions of gender, and why it’s important to have workplace breastfeeding support . Viewing it as an expression of virtual worth, it also serves to clarify the right to get an accurate picture of the performance of nursing moms in the workplace. Having already received some responses to our exclusive recent FMT Expanding, Uncovering Continuities Framing 1985-present YeboYetIdecontext 2's National Survey of Breastfeeding Attitudes and Experiences , 23 we anticipate higher responses to our second article, the one that will look at the socialization of workplace breastfeeding support and breast pumps when they are delivered to offices of