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This post will be the start of my research paper, I will find four sources to support my topic- Should American government legally require companies to provide paid maternity leave? I will then summarize, evaluate and explain how the source material are relevant to my paper. Traister, Rebecca. "Labor Pains." New Republic, vol. 246, no. 1, Feb. 2015, pp. 12-17. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com.libdb.dccc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=100757377&site=ehost-live. In this article Rebecca Traister hits on a lot of points about pregnancy in the workforce. She talks about the statistics of the age that women are having children. She explains that in the 70's the average woman had her first child at 21. by 2012 you saw most women pregnant at 26, this is an age that many young adults are at least a few years or starting a respectful job or career. Traister states "Around 15 percent of first births are now to women over the age of 35, compared with just 1 percent back in 1970. Women across all classes are now participating in the labor market like never before, and far too few are able to spare a cent" After reading this article you can get a clear idea that having a child is not an easy choice for some women to make and what holds them back is financial reasons. This source will be beneficial to my research paper because this article hits one a lot of points that I want to show in my paper. The statistics I believe would be a great shock factor, it opens ones eyes to see that pregnancy makes an economic and practical dent in the shape and solidity in one career. This source is filled with useful facts that could really help my paper. Among 41 nations, U.S. is the outlier when it comes to paid parental leave. Gretchen Livingston, fertility and family demographic. September 26, 2016 http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/09/26/u-s-lacks-mandated-paid-parental-leave/ In this article, Livingston states that U.S. is the only country among 41 nations that does not mandate any paid leave for new parents. The smallest amount of paid leave required in any of the other 40 nations is about two months. Bulgaria, Hungary, Japan, Lithuania, Austria, Czech Republic, Latvia, Norway and Slovakia – offer over a year’s worth of paid leave. Maternity leave and the employment of new mothers in the United States
Lawrence M. BergerJane Waldfogel, Journal of Population Economics. June 2004, Volume 17, Issue 2, pp 331–349 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00148-003-0159-9?LI=true This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the relationships between maternity leave coverage and U.S. women’s post-birth leave taking and employment decisions from 1988 to 1996. The article also gives background information about the United States maternity leave policy. "The U.S. did not have a national maternity leave policy until 1993 (although employers who offer temporary disability coverage to employees have been required to offer the same coverage for maternity leave since the passage of the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act). Prior to that time, maternity leave coverage was generally the result of state law, collective bargaining agreements, and employer policies."
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