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Pregnancy And Parental Care Policies In The United States And The European Community: What Do They Tell Us About Underlying Societal Values, Anne M. Lofaso
Pregnancy And Parental Care Policies In The United States And The European Community: What Do They Tell Us About Underlying Societal Values, Anne M. Lofaso
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Reaction to Felice Schwartz article, "Management Women and the New Facts of Life,"1 has added a new question to the already heated debate surrounding issues of gender discrimination: to what extent are
current pregnancy and parental care policies instruments of discrimination? This paper will explore this question by focusing on the extent to which pregnancy and parental care laws and policies in the United States and the European Community help to subordinate those women who take advantage of maternity "benefits" as well as the class of women in general.
An examination of pregnancy and parental care leave is a legitimate …