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A Time to Value: Proposal for a National Paid Maternity Leave Science

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Discussion focused on the desirability of linking maternity payments with work, on how a national scheme should be funded and whether or not the payment should be available to mothers only or whether the other parent should also be eligible. release of its interim paper, Valuing Parenthood: Options for paid
maternity leave sparked an extraordinary community debate about
the difficulties of combining work and family responsibilities in modern
Australia. I have spent eight months listening to women talking about
their struggles; the family that went without birthday presents for
a year and the mother without an annual holiday for two years, so there
would be enough money and leave saved up for her to have another baby, the young mother back at work with a two week old under the counter because her husband had lost his job and she wanted to breast feed, the countless number of women who explained why they did not have the
leave entitlements saved up that would let them have that second child
and how they could not stay home for more than two years for fear of
losing their skills, adoptive mothers describing how their new children
screamed all night for the first six months out of the overseas orphanage, making having a job impossible - and the very sad woman who put her

hand on my arm as I left a room to tell me never to forget those who
believed they had forever to have children only to find they had left
it too late. Their voices, among many, are in this paper. But they could
be the voices of many other women. Who has borne children and been able to forget the exhaustion and struggles of those early months, to say nothing of a mother's passionate absorption with her infant and the
difficulty so many of us would have in leaving that child to return
to work.

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Sydney : Sex Discrimination Unit., 2001

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xix, 227p. ; 29,5 cm

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English

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0642269831

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KP.IX

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Cuti hamil
Hak Kesehatan Perempuan

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