Job Continuity Among New Mothers
This research brief describes work documented in "Job Continuity Among New Mothers," Demography, Vol. 36, No. 2, 1999, pp. 145-155.
Excerpt: In the 1990s, the states and then the federal government enacted maternity-leave legislation. This legislation guaranteed to mothers the right, after a leave of limited duration, to return to their pre-leave employers at the same or equivalent positions. A recent presidential proposal even encourages states to use unemployment benefits to provide paid time off for new parents. Such initiatives were made in response to trends that showed the number of working mothers rising sharply in the past two decades.
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- Year: 2000
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