Rice University: Helping Pregnant Women at Work Can Hurt Their Chances of Returning After Maternity Leave
October 03, 2019
October 03, 2019
HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 3 [TNSsociologyresearch] -- Rice University issued the following news release:
Courteous people routinely give up a seat on a bus, open a door or extend some other form of kindness to a pregnant woman. But when colleagues at work try to lighten a pregnant woman's load, it can hurt her chances of returning to work after giving birth, according to new research from Rice University, the University of Memphis, Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Lowel . . .
Courteous people routinely give up a seat on a bus, open a door or extend some other form of kindness to a pregnant woman. But when colleagues at work try to lighten a pregnant woman's load, it can hurt her chances of returning to work after giving birth, according to new research from Rice University, the University of Memphis, Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Lowel . . .