Callie Calculator’s Post

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You might not believe me when I say what I'm about to say, OK, but this is a fact. One in four women have to return to the workplace 2 weeks after giving birth. What? First of all, if you've never given birth, let me just tell you you're still in diapers, you're still bleeding, you've got milk coming out of your wazoo, and you're dealing with a newborn child. Not to mention, like you then have to be stressed out about returning to work and handing off this newborn child to someone else to care for like that is honestly mind boggling, Mind blowing. Especially considering we live in a society that refuses to let us have. Their own opinions about our body and let alone what we wanna do with our babies and if we want to birth them, But then they say you have to birth them and we're not going to help you one little bit because let me tell you, there is no national paid leave in the United States. the United States is one out of six countries in the entire world. That does not offer paid leave. Women are the backbone of our society, yet we are not set up for any sort of success in this arena. Everybody should be allowed to take time for their family and time for themselves to recover from the traumatic event that is giving birth in America without having to worry about their paycheck or losing their job. There is a nationwide petition going on to pass a bill for national paid leave, hopefully so big that Congress cannot ignore this anymore. There are about 72 million women who are employed in the United States and on average there are about 3.5 million births a year. So to say that this would be impactful is an understatement.