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"A lack of paid leave, exorbitant childcare costs, and discrimination made my early career difficult at best, and for the majority of Americans, makes it nearly impossible to have a family," writes entrepreneur and new mom Jessica Gottlieb in Entrepreneur.
"I've faced discrimination as a working mother several times since 1997."
Gottlieb, who was just 24 when she became a mom for the first time, says she was "pushed out of workplaces (laid off or fired) and subjected to stereotypes about her competency" because of a lack of paid maternity leave, exorbitant childcare costs, and discrimination.
"I've been passed over for a promotion and stepped down from a leadership role because of the discrimination I faced," she writes.
"As it turns out, new mothers who take fewer than eight weeks of paid maternity leave are at higher risk for depression and experience poorer overall health."
Gottlieb says she learned many lessons from those early years, including: "Don't let your partner assume you'll continue to do so."
"I had to walk out the door at exactly 5:30pm every day to pick up my son by 6pm or pay $1 for every minute I was late.
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200 New Jobs To Be Created With Social Enterprise That Reuses IT
The Regional and European Co-Operative for Social Industry (RECOSI) is a new Irish social enterprise which aims to divert IT and electrical goods from being recycled.
