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Author suggests childless women deserve 'meternity' leave
WFAA.COM ^ | 29 APRIL 2016 | SARA SCHLAGEL

Posted on 04/29/2016 4:14:44 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

An author is receiving backlash after voicing that childless women also deserve a maternity leave. The concept is deemed a "meternity" leave, and Meghann Foye makes her statement in an article in the New York Post.

Foye, 38, thought up the idea when she was a magazine editor and became "envious" of her co-workers who would leave to care for their children after their eight hour days. She said that she felt as if all of the childless workers had to then pick up the slack and work for ten or more hours a day.

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KEYWORDS: equality
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Hubris and narcissism gave birth to self-absorbed. Let’s celebrate.


41 posted on 04/29/2016 4:46:51 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Boogieman
Um, I hate to break it to you but most women don't wake up at 50 and say: hey! they never told me I couldn't have children at 50 or 60! Even Cosmopolitan Magazine was honest about that. And since most women visit gynecologists on a regular basis who actually harp on reminding women about their window closing, I think you're trying to hand a rubber peach to a gullible child.
42 posted on 04/29/2016 4:49:57 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: goodwithagun
Absolutely! And you get to demand the Obamacare laws regarding nursing. Your employer now must provide with time and a place to pump. Congrats! Ain’t liberalism grand?

HEY!!!...Where do I put this pump thingy?

I think I'll try here...ooh...

Ohhh!!!!!!

43 posted on 04/29/2016 4:50:25 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

If a woman adopts a child then many organizations do grant maternity or bonding leave.

Not seeing the problem or drama here so long as there’s a child involved.


44 posted on 04/29/2016 4:50:38 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

****Foye, 38, thought up the idea when she was a magazine editor and became “envious” of her co-workers****

Thou shall not covet...


45 posted on 04/29/2016 4:51:19 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: kearnyirish2

Well said. I skipped the college/career path and went straight to the stay-at-home-mom path. And I’d never trade my six kids (yes!) for forty cats...ever!!!


46 posted on 04/29/2016 4:51:56 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The concept is deemed a "meternity" leave

More like a mentality leave.
47 posted on 04/29/2016 4:52:28 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I think where there may be some resentment even more so than maternity leave is where others, meaning men and single women, in the workplace are called on more often to either travel or be on call for the company and supervisors tend to call less on women with children. Happens quite a bit at the aerospace company my daughter works for.She is on call more frequently and called on to travel more than her married with children counterparts.


48 posted on 04/29/2016 4:52:28 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Intel gives you sabbaticals every few years. About the same length. She just needs a new job.


49 posted on 04/29/2016 4:52:53 PM PDT by discostu (Joan Crawford has risen from the grave)
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To: mountn man

I paid around $500 for mine plus all the accessories and extra parts. However, if you’re on WIC fed gov will give you one for FREE! Then you can pump, claim you can’t produce even though you do, get $$$ for formula, and then sell the formula for profit while continuing to pump for your baby.


50 posted on 04/29/2016 4:53:03 PM PDT by goodwithagun (March 3, 2016: The date FReepers justified the "goodness" of Planned Parenthood.)
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To: MeganC

FMLA covers leave for biological and adoptive children.


51 posted on 04/29/2016 4:54:36 PM PDT by goodwithagun (March 3, 2016: The date FReepers justified the "goodness" of Planned Parenthood.)
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To: miss marmelstein

“Don’t go there, Vlad!”

Hey, inquiring minds want to know! Once the question is in my head I have to know what the answer is. Platypodes.


52 posted on 04/29/2016 4:55:55 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

If it bothers this whiner so much, she should quit her job.


53 posted on 04/29/2016 4:57:56 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: MeganC

“And I’d never trade my six kids (yes!) for forty cats...ever!!!”

But now they can talk to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Me4j8jepk0


54 posted on 04/29/2016 4:58:12 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: MeganC

It’s easy to say as a stay at home mom. Business doesn’t deal with maternity issues well. Mom gets to go home but all the other workers have to scramble to do all of the missing employee’s work. I hate to tell you but it, does, indeed, cause resentment.


55 posted on 04/29/2016 4:58:12 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: vladimir998

Ah, you avoided that trap!


56 posted on 04/29/2016 4:58:56 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: gaijin

Would the plural be platyplii?


57 posted on 04/29/2016 5:00:11 PM PDT by Reynoldo
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To: JennysCool

Don’t you already get “Pa”-ternity leave?


58 posted on 04/29/2016 5:02:42 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To all those who won’t give children or working mothers a break: You. Have. No. Idea.


59 posted on 04/29/2016 5:10:09 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Socially and psychologically, her growth has been stunted along the way. We have a bumper crop of these growth stunted freaks in society today.


60 posted on 04/29/2016 5:12:52 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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