for individual families. Added savings on indirect expenses include reduced medical bills linked to babies falling ill, and reduced working mothers' absenteeism from work for sick babies' doctor appointments. Macro-level advantages include a convenient to reducing healthcare spending across the nation. Breastfeeding decreases expensive health-service usage, which has to be disbursed by insurers, families or governmental organizations. Decreased workplace absenteeism offers micro-level family benefits as well as macro-level societal benefits in the form of increased productivity. Supporting breastfeeding can decrease governmental expenses on formula as well (Mohler, 2011).
Companies will recognize breastfeeding benefits if they offer their female employees the option of continuing breastfeeding upon rejoining their jobs. Owing… Continue Reading...
must be protected, promoted and supported even among working mothers, after they return to their jobs. The WHO (World Health Organization) recommendation is that babies ought to be given nothing but breast milk until six months of age, with some amount of breastfeeding to be continued, at least till they reach two years of age (Deirdre Desmond & Sarah Meaney, 2016).
Breastfeeding at the Workplace
Breastfeeding rates in a majority of industrialized nations are generally below the desired levels. For instance, the 2002 U.S. estimate is that roughly seven in ten American mothers breastfed their babies in the… Continue Reading...
children. She also encouraged industry leaders to build model childcare facilities to be used by their workers. However, all these efforts did not meet the full childcare needs of working mothers.
In conclusion, the advent of World War 2 offered American women the opportunity to join the labor market and take up different roles without being discriminated based on their gender. Women taking up male-dominated roles and performing as well as their male counterparts demonstrated that women were as capable as men. Women taking up these roles resulted in the implementation of childcare act that offered childcare facilities to be used by working mothers.
References
Anderson, Karen. Wartime Women: Sex Roles Family Relations and the Status of Women During… Continue Reading...