Since 1971 August 26th has been Women’s Equality Day. Although this was a great leap in history for women, we are still faced with rampant sexism today. Women are discriminated against for many reasons. In North America and Britain and throughout many other parts of the developed world, breastfeeding can be one of them. It [...]
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This post is a part of The Carnival of Maternity Leave being hosted by the one and only Amber at Strocel.com. Go on over and check out her blog for some other great maternity leave stories. I am one of those lucky Canadians who recieved a year long maternity leave. In addition I got top up from [...]
Today I want to know what you think about government regulated or government subsidized breastfeeding. How would you feel if you learned that your country required new mothers to sign a consent form if they wanted to give baby formula to their infants? How would you feel if breastfeeding women got paid to breastfeed? Is this [...]
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I wonder if Hannah Rosin would have gone out of her way to make a case against breastfeeding if she was Canadian? Would she have felt the same tied down-ness during her paid year long maternity leave north of the border? Or would she have insisted on going back to work and let her husband take [...]
