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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article was a little annoying - it painted a VERY rosy picture of being a working mother in Sweden and a VERY dismal picture of being a working mother in the U.S.

For comparison - my friends in Europe (a few different countries, including one in Sweden) say that as a woman in your late 20s/early 30s, it's hard to get a job because people are worried that you'll get pregnant and leave for a year, meaning they'll have to find and hire a temporary replacement which is really hard.

And most working women that read the Harvard Business Review are not in the US woman's situation. A lot of professional women are eligible for FMLA and get 6-10 weeks paid through disability insurance (not everyone, that's why I said a lot).  A lot of women (even those of us in this area where childcare is a nightmare) are able to figure something out (but yes, for many, it IS prohibitively expensive).  And the weird dumping work on the new mom thing also doesn't happen t everyone.  I"m not saying that the description for her was not realistic, I know there are a lot of people who have it that bad or worse, but it's also a worst case scenario, don't you think?[/quote]

Eligible for a whole 10 paid weeks!!!! :lol:  :lol:  :lol: [/quote]

Yeah cause there’s nothing better than the feeling of dropping your baby off at daycare when he can’t even sit up.  US maternity policies are inhumane.[/quote]

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