The motherhood penalty : how to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career / Joeli Brearley.

  • Brearley, Joeli
Date:
2022
  • Books

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Description

Oeli Brearley was sacked the day after she told her boss she was pregnant. She thought this was a one-off, until she discovered that in the UK alone 54,000 women every year are forced out of their jobs due to pregnancy or maternity discrimination. Seventy-seven per cent of working mothers have been treated negatively at work. A third of employers say they would avoid hiring women of child-bearing age. Unable to accept how many women and families were suffering with the economic and psychological repercussions of such discrimination, Brearley launched Pregnant Then Screwed - a space for women to share their stories, get legal advice and coaching, and to campaign. Full of practical tools and tips for when you need to fight back and stories from women who've been there and done that, this book is a tour of modern working motherhood.

Publication/Creation

London : Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., 2022.

Physical description

368 pages ; 20 cm

Notes

Previously published in hardback as Pregnant Then Screwed in 2021.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. How it all began: discrimination, gestation, creation -- 2. How did we get here? -- 3. The guilt will gobble you up if you let it -- 4. The motherhood penalty -- 5. I had a baby, not a lobotomy: pregnancy and maternity discrimination -- 6. Isn't that illegal? -- 7. Gagged -- 8. Cheer up, it might never happen -- 9. Childcare is infrastructure -- 10. The domestic load -- 11. What about dad? -- 12. Don't be a schmuck, flex it up -- 13. No ordinary mother -- 14. Master of your own destiny: is self-employment the solution? -- 15. WHat are they doing over there? -- 16. Where there's a will there's a way -- 17. Lockdown -- Afterword: Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

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    Medical Collection
    HD6065 2022B82m
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781398508040
  • 1398508047