Five of our readers share their stories about workplace prejudice while pregnant or when returning to work
Have you experienced discrimination for being pregnant or a mother at work? If not it might surprise you to hear that despite the laws in place to protect against this, it’s more common than you might imagine.
A report by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission found that that three-quarters of pregnant women and new mothers have experienced prejudice, with one in nine women losing their jobs as a result. What’s more, only one in four women affected raised it with their employer, mainly because of the high cost of taking a case to a tribunal.
I decided to leave and the UK to come to work in Scandinavian where there is much more gender parity
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