The fact that three-quarters of women experience a negative or discriminatory effect of their pregnancy at work, as a report from the women and equalities select committee shows, isn’t a huge surprise to me.
Seven years ago I was pregnant for the first time and emailed my employer’s human resources department to ask whether I would accrue bank holidays during my maternity leave. It’s not a life-shatteringly interesting question, but something I felt I needed to know to consider how long I could afford to be at home with my newborn. Instead of clarification I received a sharp email instructing me that maternity leave was intended to be for “recuperating from childbirth and spending time with my baby”. It was not a way of greedily storing up holiday. Chastened and naive, I didn’t ask again. Those bank holidays I was indeed entitled to disappeared into the ether, and I didn’t go back to that job.
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