'Companies can create a workplace where mothers aren’t hiding in broom closets pumping milk, but rather visiting their babies for large doses of love and serotonin before returning to their work and kicking ass.”
"Companies can create a workplace where mothers aren’t hiding in broom closets pumping milk, but rather visiting their babies for large doses of love and serotonin before returning to their work and kicking ass.”after having a baby isn’t easy for moms or dads, but there’s no denying that women have it especially hard. So when you work for a company that encourages you to be a moman employee, you know you’re one of the lucky few.
Morissette was feeling extra grateful while she was breastfeeding her child during a morning meeting shortly after returning from maternity leave. “It got me thinking, with the immense gratitude that I have for on-site childcare at Patagonia comes a responsibility to share a ‘call to action'. A PSA to tout the extraordinary benefits that come along with not asking employees to make the gut wrenching decision to either leave their jobs or leave their babies,” she says..
“Our employees make up the core of our company and we want them to bring not just their ‘best selves’ but their whole selves to work,” Dean Carter, Patagonia’s vice president of human resources,. “They are important because it means we have more women in management positions, and because our employees work for us for a long time.
Morissette's post not only serves a much-deserved nod to Patagonia, but also a reminder of the void in corporate America that still needs to be filled. Sociologist Caitlyn Collins spentin four wealthy western countries—Sweden, Germany, Italy and the US. Her conclusion? Stress is synonymous with working moms in the US. She found every region has different policies in place to help mothers that virtually don’t exist in the US. As a result, working moms in America are drowning in stress.
“Perhaps just one person will brave the subject with their employer, big or small, in the hopes that it gets the wheels turning to think differently about how to truly support working families,” the mom writes. “With a bit of creativity, and a whole lot of guts, companies can create a workplace where mothers aren’t hiding in broom closets pumping milk, but rather visiting their babies for large doses of love and serotonin before returning to their work and kicking ass.
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