After 30 years, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has finally improved its guidelines against pregnancy discrimination to coincide with common sense and decency. » 7/16/14 2:55pm 7/16/14 2:55pm

In midst of a handful of settlements, the Department of Justice and the Department of Housing and Urban development HUD) is making it very clear that banks are not to discriminate against pregnant women or women on maternity leave. » 7/08/14 11:50am 7/08/14 11:50am

President Obama has called for the US to join almost every country in the entire world in mandating paid maternity leave for working women. Pretty thought, but as long as the same grandstanding, obstructionist ideologue fuckos occupy the House, it will never happen. » 6/24/14 3:45pm 6/24/14 3:45pm

Former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason has apologized for comments he made on his radio show while discussing the very short paternity leave taken by Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy. (Esiason claimed that if he were in the baseball player's shoes, "I would have said 'C-section before the season starts, I need to be… » 4/04/14 11:20am 4/04/14 11:20am

Bald eagles? Meh. Apple pie? You can get that at McDonalds in Europe. Jingoism? Ever seen the Olympics? Everyone's into that. If you're looking for the most quintessentially American trait, look no further than the way this country expects new mothers to pull themselves up by the umbilical cords. » 1/15/14 11:50am 1/15/14 11:50am

Over at The Atlantic this week, there is a daily discussion of paternity leave and a father's role in the home. » 12/26/13 5:40pm 12/26/13 5:40pm

In a move that many aficionados of American capitalism are already lauding as really, really smart, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, the boss who loves her employees so much she wants to see them in the office all the time, has expanded the amount of paid maternity and paternity leave Yahoo employees receive. » 5/01/13 10:00am 5/01/13 10:00am

We get it, Internet: Marissa Mayer is doing it wrong. As the CEO of Yahoo and only one of a handful of women to whom men have been willing to hand over the keys to the empire (albeit a crumbling one) she's an important woman and it's obvious she doesn't get what that means to all the rest of us, or else she would do… » 10/04/12 5:45pm 10/04/12 5:45pm

America, the land of the free and the home of the Super Size bucket o' fries, is supposed to be a place of opportunity, where everyone has a fair shot at one day growing up to be the Monopoly Man. But, as many women are finding out, the way we treat working women who dare choose to get pregnant is anything but… » 9/10/12 7:00pm 9/10/12 7:00pm

When Yahoo! invited the perilously pregnant Marissa Mayer to captain its rudderless, waterlogged ship (hooray for nautical metaphors!), everybody collectively scrunched their brows and wondered why Mayer would want to give up a sweet Google gig to get in a time machine and go run 1999's search engine. Actually, what… » 8/02/12 11:25am 8/02/12 11:25am

Forget about paid maternity leave — at the Insurance Australia Group, one of the country's biggest companies after Outback Steakhouse, the Steve Irwin Estate, and Paul Hogan, new mothers receive double their original paycheck during their first six weeks back on the job. Double. As in, twice as much as before, a sharp… » 4/17/12 10:15am 4/17/12 10:15am

An unmarried woman who was fired by her Christian school employer after discovering she was pregnant would like to set the record straight about herself. She's a good, Christian woman. Unlike those other, wild partying slutty single mothers. » 4/11/12 6:20pm 4/11/12 6:20pm

Being pregnant is hard enough without having to worry about being fired for asking for extra bathroom breaks. But, right now, there's no law on the books to stop that from happening. Good God. We're still talking about this? This is a thing we're debating? In 2012? » 1/31/12 4:40pm 1/31/12 4:40pm

Fox News anchor and professional mom Megyn Kelly has made a name for herself not only for demonstrating how alternate spellings of common first names are terrible, but also for breaking step with her conservative pundit colleagues to defend paid maternity leave and upper mobility for people born into the middle… » 12/12/11 12:55pm 12/12/11 12:55pm

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released a report on employment and parental leave for first-time mothers, showing how little time women now take off when they have kids. The data also show that the least-educated women in America have the least access to paid leave. » 11/30/11 11:50am 11/30/11 11:50am